Using Word Posterior Probabilities in Lattice Translation

2007 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 131-136

  Alabau, Vicente ^a   Sanchis, Alberto ^a   Casacuberta, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS; LATTICE REPRESENTATION; LOGLINEAR MODEL; REORDERING MODELS; SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; STOCHASTIC FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCERS; WORD POSTERIOR PROBABILITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85032425291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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