A backoff model for bootstrapping resources for non-english languages

HLT/EMNLP 2005 - Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 851-858

  Xi, Chenhai ^a   Hwa, Rebecca ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

BOOTSTRAPPING METHOD; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MANUAL ANNOTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGES; PARALLEL CORPORA; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGER; SELF TRAINING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 58449086667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220575.1220682     Document Type: Conference Paper

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