Predicting Chinese abbreviations from definitions: An empirical learning approach using support vector regression

Journal of Computer Science and Technology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 602-611

  Sun, Xu ^a,b   Wang, Hou Feng ^a   Wang, Bo ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abbreviation prediction; Statistical natural language processing; Support vector regression; Word clustering

Indexed keywords

ABBREVIATION PREDICTION; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; HEURISTIC RULES; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODEL; LEARNING APPROACHES; NAMED ENTITIES; STATISTICAL NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SUPPORT VECTOR REGRESSION; WORD CLUSTERING;

FOOD PROCESSING; HEURISTIC METHODS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INFORMATION SERVICES; MARKOV PROCESSES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; VECTORS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 49449118515     PISSN: 10009000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11390-008-9156-5     Document Type: Article

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