Automatic Sentence Segmentation and Punctuation Prediction for Spoken Language Translation

2006 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 158-165

  Matusov, Evgeny ^a   Mauser, Arne ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; FORECASTING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PHRASE-BASED MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PUNCTUATION GENERATIONS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SENTENCE SEGMENTATION; SIMPLE++; SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; TRANSLATION ALGORITHMS;

MACHINE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85133379046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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