Transliteration as constrained optimization

EMNLP 2008 - 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 353-362

  Goldwasser, Dan ^a   Roth, Dan ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

BILINGUAL CORPORA; CONSTRAINED OPTIMI-ZATION PROBLEMS; DISCRIMINATIVE APPROACH; NAMED ENTITIES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; TARGET LANGUAGE;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 74549142837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1613715.1613762     Document Type: Conference Paper

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