Improving Arabic-Chinese Statistical Machine Translation using English as Pivot Language

EACL 2009 - 4th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings of theWorkshop

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 173-181

  Habash, Nizar ^a   Hu, Jun ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PIVOT LANGUAGE; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SYNTACTIC VARIATIONS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85121702302     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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