Learning to find English to Chinese transliterations on the Web

EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 996-1004

  Wu, Jian Cheng ^a   Chang, Jason S ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH PRECISION; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; PROPER NOUNS; RUNTIMES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SEARCH ENGINES; USER INTERFACES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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