A hybrid approach to align sentences and words in English-Hindi parallel corpora

Texts@ACL 2005 - Building and Using Parallel Texts: Data-Driven Machine Translation and Beyond, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 57-64

  Aswani, Niraj ^a   Gaizauskas, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

ALIGNMENT SYSTEM; HYBRID APPROACH; MANY TO MANY; MULTIFEATURES; PARALLEL CORPORA; SENTENCE ALIGNMENT; SENTENCE LEVEL; SIMPLE++; WORD ALIGNMENT; WORD LEVEL;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 85117716498     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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