Symmetric word alignments for statistical machine translation

COLING 2004 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Matusov, Evgeny ^a   Zens, Richard ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

ALIGNMENT PROBLEMS; AUTOMATIC ALIGNMENT; FRENCH-ENGLISH; MANY-TO-ONE; MINIMAL TOTAL COSTS; SOURCE DIRECTIONS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SYMMETRICS; TARGET WORDS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85062890819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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