Adaptive Multilingual Sentence Boundary Disambiguation

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 240-267

  Palmer, David D ^a,b   Hearst, Marti A ^a  

^a University of California ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

MULTILINGUAL SENTENCES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; PARTS OF SPEECH; PUNCTUATION MARKS; SENTENCE ANALYSIS; SENTENCE BOUNDARIES; TRAINABLE SYSTEM; TRAINING CORPUS;

MACHINE LEARNING;

EID: 0347138625     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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