The University of Maryland Statistical Machine Translation System for the FourthWorkshop on Machine Translation

EACL 2009 - 4th Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, Proceedings of theWorkshop

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 145-149

  Dyer, Chris ^a,b   Setiawan, Hendra ^a   Marton, Yuval ^a,b   Resnik, Philip ^a,b  

^a Umiacs Laboratory For Computational Linguistics And Information Processing

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

CO-TRAINING; FUNCTION WORDS; HIERARCHICAL PHRASE; HUNGARIANS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MINIMUM BAYES RISK; ON-MACHINES; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND; WORD SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85122962819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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