Syntax-to-morphology mapping in factored phrase-based statistical machine translation from english to Turkish

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2010-July, Issue , 2010, Pages 454-464

  Yeniterzi, Reyyan ^a   Oflazer, Kemal ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

LANGUAGE PAIRS; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; NONLOCAL; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; STRUCTURAL TAGS; SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE; TRAINING DATA; TURKISHS;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 85118432181     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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