Bilingual hebrew-english generation of possessives and partitives: raising the input abstraction level

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1999-June, Issue , 1999, Pages 144-151

  Netzer, Yael Dahan ^a   Elhadad, Michael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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ABSTRACTING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES; SPECIFICATIONS;

ABSTRACTION LEVEL; BILINGUALS; CO-OCCURRENCE; CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS; LEXICAL ENTRIES; SINGLE INPUT;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 1842833706     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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