Estimating Word Translation Probabilities from Unrelated Monolingual Corpora Using the EM Algorithm

Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 12th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 711-715

  Koehn, Philipp ^a   Knight, Kevin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

CORE PROBLEMS; EM ALGORITHMS; LANGUAGE MODEL; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; TARGET LANGUAGE; TRANSLATION MODELS; WORD TRANSLATION;

MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 85158171418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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