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103 emnlp-2013-Improving Pivot-Based Statistical Machine Translation Using Random Walk


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Author: Xiaoning Zhu ; Zhongjun He ; Hua Wu ; Haifeng Wang ; Conghui Zhu ; Tiejun Zhao

Abstract: This paper proposes a novel approach that utilizes a machine learning method to improve pivot-based statistical machine translation (SMT). For language pairs with few bilingual data, a possible solution in pivot-based SMT using another language as a


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