Anaphora models and reordering for phrase-based SMT

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 122-129

  Hardmeier, Christian ^a   Stymne, Sara ^a   Tiedemann, Jörg ^a   Smith, Aaron ^a   Nivre, Joakim ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DISTORTION MODEL; PROJECTION MODELS; PRONOMINAL ANAPHORA; SYNTACTIC DEPENDENCIES; TUNABLES; UNIVERSITY SYSTEM; UPPSALA UNIVERSITY;

EID: 85122616342     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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