Edinburgh's Machine Translation Systems for European Language Pairs

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 114-121

  Durrani, Nadir ^a   Haddow, Barry ^a   Heafield, Kenneth ^a   Koehn, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

DATA RESOURCES; EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; LANGUAGE PAIRS; LARGE DATA; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; OPERATION SEQUENCES; OPTIMIZING PARAMETERS; PARAMETER TRAINING; SPARSE FEATURES; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85122705905     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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