Statistical Translation Model for Phrases

Machine Translation is one of the most difficult problems in the field of natural language processing. In the past, MT has been applied to professional communication in the process of translating technical and corporate document on a specific domain. Recent years saw the rapid development of Internet as a new form of communication and information exchange, and the need to access information across the language barrier became apparent. People began to look into the role that MT can play in Cross Language Information Retrieval. The prevalent approach to CLIR is based on translation of query, in particular query 國立清華大學資訊工程研究所 E-mail: [email protected] 中華電信研究所