Alignment of multiple languages for historical comparison

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1, Issue , 1998, Pages 275-280

  Covington, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; GUIDED SEARCH; HARD COMPUTATIONAL PROBLEM; MULTIPLE LANGUAGES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 33845693342     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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