I2R’s Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2010

2010 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 67-72

  Duan, Xiangyu ^a   Banchs, Rafael E ^a   Lang, Jun ^a   Xiong, Deyi ^a   Aw, Aiti ^a   Zhang, Min ^a   Li, Haizhou ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

INFOCOMM; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; SYSTEM COMBINATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85133172714     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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