Embedding Knowledge Elicitation and MT Systems within a Single Architecture

Machine Translation

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 271-305

  McShane, Marjorie ^a   Nirenburg, Sergei ^a   Cowie, James ^b   Zacharski, Ron ^b  

^a University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge acquisition; Knowledge elicitation; Rapid ramp up

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SET THEORY;

COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ELICITATION (KE); MACHINE TRANSLATION (MT); RAPID RAMP-UP;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 2142650116     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:COAT.0000020880.86237.b5     Document Type: Article

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