Hebrew computational linguistics: Past and Future

Artificial Intelligence Review

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-138

  Wintner, Shuly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Computational linguistics; Hebrew; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FINITE AUTOMATA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

HEBREW LANGUAGE; SEMITIC LANGUAGE; WRITING SYSTEM;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 1842865709     PISSN: 02692821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:AIRE.0000020865.73561.bc     Document Type: Article

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