Named entity translation matching and learning: With application for mining unseen translations

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Lam, Wai ^a   Chan, Shing Kit ^a   Huang, Ruizhang ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Learning phonetic information; Named entity translation; Text mining

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; GLOSSARIES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; WEB SERVICES;

BIPARTITE GRAPH MODEL; ENTITY MATCHING MODEL; ORDER INSENSITIVITY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 33847662524     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1198296.1198298     Document Type: Article

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