Active learning for constructing transliteration lexicons from the Web

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 126-135

  Kuo, Jin Shea ^a   Li, Haizhou ^b   Yang, Ying Kuei ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b Institute for Lnfocomm Research   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PROGRAM TRANSLATORS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; WEB SERVICES;

ACTIVE LEARNING; TRANSLITERATION LEXICONS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 38349108722     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20737     Document Type: Article

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