Statistical morphological disambiguation for agglutinative languages

Computers and the Humanities

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 381-410

  Hakkani Tür, Dilek Z ^a   Oflazer, Kemal ^b   Tür, Gökhan ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Agglutinative languages; Morphological disambiguation; N gram language models; Statistical natural language processing; Turkish

Indexed keywords

EID: 21144436663     PISSN: 00104817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020271707826     Document Type: Article

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