Maximum entropy modeling for diacritization of Arabic text

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 145-148

  Sarikaya, Ruhi ^a   Emam, Ossama ^b   Zitouni, Imed ^a   Gao, Yuqing ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM Center for Advanced Studies in Cairo   (Egypt)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; TITRATION;

DIALECTAL ARABICS; EMISSION PROBABILITIES; INFORMATION SOURCES; MAXENT MODELS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY MODELING; MODEL FRAMEWORK; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGS; SEARCH PROBLEM;

FORESTRY;

EID: 44949096461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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