Improved statistical machine translation using monolingual paraphrases

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 178, Issue , 2008, Pages 338-342

  Nakov, Preslav ^a,b,c  

^a BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

DOUBLINGS; NOUN COMPOUNDS; NOUN PHRASE; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; SYNTACTIC TREES; TRAINING DATA;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85052000071     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-58603-891-5-338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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