Improved Chunk-level Reordering for Statistical Machine Translation

2007 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 21-28

  Zhang, Yuqi ^a   Zens, Richard ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

SOURCE DATA; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; WEIGHTING FACTORS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85133373743     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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