Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation with Pivot Languages

2008 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 143-149

  Bertoldi, Nicola ^a   Barbaiani, Madalina ^b   Federico, Marcello ^a   Cattoni, Roldano ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATION;

PARALLEL CORPORA; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; PIVOT LANGUAGE; RANDOM SAMPLING; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRAINING DATA; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

COUPLINGS;

EID: 85133374790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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