Maximum expected likelihood estimation for zero-resource neural machine translation

IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 0, Issue , 2017, Pages 4251-4257

  Zheng, Hao ^a   Cheng, Yong ^b   Liu, Yang ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

BASELINE METHODS; EXPECTED LIKELIHOODS; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PARALLEL CORPORA; RESOURCE-RICH; TARGET MODEL; TRANSLATION MODELS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 85031930796     PISSN: 10450823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.24963/ijcai.2017/594     Document Type: Conference Paper

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