The impact of morphological stemming on Arabic mention detection and coreference resolution

Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages Workshop Proceedings, SEMITIC@ACL 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 63-70

  Zitouni, Imed ^a   Sorensen, Jeff ^a   Luo, Xiaoqiang ^a   Florian, Radu ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGGLUTINATIVE LANGUAGE; COREFERENCE RESOLUTION; DETECTION RESOLUTIONS; DETECTION SYSTEM; ENTITY DETECTION; ENTITY RECOGNITION; FINITE-STATE; MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRINCIPLE; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; SEGMENTER;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 52149088856     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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