Fertility models for statistical natural language understanding

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1997-July, Issue , 1997, Pages 168-173

  Pietra, Stephen Della ^a,b   Epstein, Mark ^a   Roukos, Salim ^a   Ward, Todd ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Renaissance Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION SERVICES;

AIR TRAVELS; BIGRAMS; EM ALGORITHMS; ENGLISH WORD; GENERAL MODEL; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MODELING PARAMETERS; NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; NONPARAMETRICS; POISSON MODEL;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 18744386808     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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