Improving bitext word alignments via syntax-based reordering of english

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2004-July, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Drábek, Elliott Franco ^a   Yarowsky, David ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HEURISTIC METHODS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ALIGNMENT METHODS; PARALLEL TEXT; PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE CONDITIONS; RESOURCE-RICH; SIMPLE++; SOURCE LANGUAGE; SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS; TARGET LANGUAGE; WORD ALIGNMENT;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 85122960456     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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