Optimization of word alignment clues

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 279-293

  Tiedemann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

STATISTICAL ALIGNMENT MODELS; WORD ALIGNMENT CLUES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 25844507761     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324905003864     Document Type: Article

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