The CMU Statistical Machine Translation System for IWSLT 2005

2005 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 53-60

  Hewavitharana, Sanjika ^a   Zhao, Bing ^a   Hildebrand, Almut Silja ^a   Eck, Matthias ^a   Hori, Chiori ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a   Waibel, Alex ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EXTRACTION; MACHINE TRANSLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALIGNMENT-FREE; BILINGUAL CORPORA; EXTRACTION METHOD; LANGUAGE MODEL; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MODEL LANGUAGES; PHRASE EXTRACTION; PHRASE TRANSLATIONS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEM; TRANSLATION MODELS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85133319503     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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