Incorporating position information into a maximum entropy/minimum divergence translation model

Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, CoNLL 2000 and of the 2nd Learning Language in Logic Workshop, LLL 2000 - Held in cooperation with ICGI 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 37-42

  Foster, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

BILINGUAL WORD PAIRS; LANGUAGE MODEL; MAXIMUM-ENTROPY; POSITION INFORMATION; RELATIVE POSITIONS; TEST CORPUS; TRANSLATION MODELS; TRI GRAMS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

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