Improved estimation for unsupervised part-of-speech tagging

Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, IEEE NLP-KE'05

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 219-224

  Qin, Iris Wang ^a   Schuurmans, Dale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEMANTICS; WORD PROCESSING;

BAUM-WELCH ESTIMATION; COMPLEX MODELS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); LEXICAL MODEL; SPEECH TAGGING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33847259727     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NLPKE.2005.1598738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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