The RWTH Aachen Speech Recognition and Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2012

2012 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 69-76

  Peitz, Stephan ^a   Mansour, Saab ^a   Freitag, Markus ^a   Feng, Minwei ^a   Huck, Matthias ^a   Wuebker, Joern ^a   Nuhn, Malte ^a   Nußbaum Thom, Markus ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

ARABIC-ENGLISH; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DATA SELECTION; DOMAIN ADAPTATION; INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; TRANSLATION MODELS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85133189504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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