AppTek’s APT Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2010

2010 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 29-36

  Matusov, Evgeny ^a   Köprü, Selçuk ^b  

^a AppTek Inc   (Germany)

^b AppTek Inc   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; TRANSLATION QUALITY; TURKISHS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85092847524     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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