Tuning a phrase-based statistical translation system for the IWSLT 2005 Chinese to English and Arabic to English tasks

2005 International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation, IWSLT 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 175-180

  Costa Jussà, Marta R ^a   Fonollosa, José A R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

PERFORMANCE; PHRASE EXTRACTION; STATISTICAL TRANSLATION; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

MACHINE TRANSLATION;

EID: 85133400228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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