A Statistically Emergent Approach for Language Processing: Application to Modeling Context Effects in Ambiguous Chinese Word Boundary Perception

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 531-553

  Gan, Kok Wee ^a   Lua, Kim Teng ^c   Palmer, Martha ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE TESTING;

ASYNCHRONOUS PARALLELISM; COLLECTIVE PHENOMENA; CONTROLLED RANDOMNESS; CRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; INTEGRAL COMPONENTS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; WORD IDENTIFICATION;

MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 0038216910     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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