Vs and OOVs: Two Problems for Translation between German and English

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 183-188

  Stymne, Sara ^a   Holmqvist, Maria ^a   Ahrenberg, Lars ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

OUTOF-VOCABULARY WORDS (OOV);

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 85122516411     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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