Automatic diacritic restoration for resource-scarce languages

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4629 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 170-179

  De Pauw, Guy ^a   Wagacha, Peter W ^b   De Schryver, Gilles Maurice ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); LEARNING SYSTEMS;

CORPUS COMPILATION; DIACRITIC RESTORATION; RESOURCE-SCARCE LANGUAGES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 38149032480     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-74628-7_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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