The DCU-ICTCAS MT system at WMT 2014 on German-english translation task

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 136-141

  Li, Liangyou ^a   Wu, Xiaofeng ^a   Cortes Váillo, Santiago ^a   Xie, Jun ^b   Way, Andy ^a   Liu, Qun ^a,b  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE MODEL; MODEL INTERPOLATION; MODELING OPERATION; OPERATION SEQUENCES; PRE-PROCESSING; REORDERING MODELS; SEQUENCE MODELS; SYSTEM COMBINATION; SYSTEM USE; TRANSLATION MODELS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 85122632832     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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