Bootstrapping parsers via syntactic projection across parallel texts

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 311-325

  Hwa, Rebecca ^a   Resnik, Philip ^b   Weinberg, Amy ^b   Cabezas, Clara ^b   Kolak, Okan ^c  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; TEXT PROCESSING;

PARALLEL TEXTS; STOCHASTIC PARSERS; SYNTACTIC PROJECTION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 25844515200     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324905003840     Document Type: Article

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