The TÜBİTAK Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2012

2012 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 144-148

  Mermer, Coşkun ^a   Kaya, Hamza ^a   El Kahlout, İlknur Durgar ^a   Doğan, Mehmet Ugur ^a  

^a SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TURKEY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

ALIGNMENT METHODS; ARABIC-ENGLISH; BAYER SAMPLING; BAYESIAN; GIBBS SAMPLING; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; TURKISHS; VARIATIONAL BAYES;

MACHINE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85133202407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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