Four techniques for online handling of out-of-vocabulary words in Arabic-English statistical machine translation

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 57-60

  Habash, Nizar ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARABIC-ENGLISH; OUTOF-VOCABULARY WORDS (OOV); PERFORMANCE; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; REUSE; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

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EID: 85119977756     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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