A Class-based Approach to Word Alignment

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 312-343

  Ker, Sue J ^a   Chang, Jason S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT METHODS; BILINGUAL CORPORA; BILINGUAL DICTIONARY; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; QUANTITATIVE RESULT; TECHNICAL MANUALS; TRAINING AND TESTING; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0008633129     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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