Error measures and bayes decision rules revisited with applications to POS tagging

Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2004 - A meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL held in conjunction with ACL 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 270-276

  Ney, Hermann ^a   Popović, Maja ^a   Sündermann, David ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; ERRORS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BAYES DECISION RULES; ERROR MEASURES; FIRST PRINCIPLES; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MINIMIZING THE NUMBER OF; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL STUDY; SYMBOL ERRORS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 22944452052     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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