QCRI at WMT12: Experiments in Spanish-English and German-English Machine Translation of News Text

WMT 2012 - 7th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 298-303

  Guzḿan, Francisco ^a   Nakov, Preslav ^a   Thabet, Ahmed ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a  

^a QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTING RESEARCH; DATA SELECTION; EVALUATION RESULTS; MACHINE TRANSLATION MODELS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; RESEARCH INSTITUTES; STANDARD SETTING;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85045723612     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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