Chunk-based Verb Reordering in VSO Sentences for Arabic-English Statistical Machine Translation

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 235-243

  Bisazza, Arianna ^a   Federico, Marcello ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE BRUNO KESSLER   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARABIC-ENGLISH; DISFLUENCIES; DISPLACERS; ENGLISH WORD; PARALLEL CORPORA; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; PREPROCESS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRAINING DATA; WORD ORDERS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85122527145     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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