Using Sense-labeled Discourse Connectives for Statistical Machine Translation

Joint Workshop on Exploiting Synergies between Information Retrieval and Machine Translation, ESIRMT 2012 and Hybrid Approaches to Machine Translation, HyTra 2012 at the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 129-138

  Meyer, Thomas ^a   Popescu Belis, Andrei ^a  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

F1 SCORES; HIGH CONFIDENCE; SEMANTIC FEATURES; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; SYNTACTIC FEATURES;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85106101767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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