Improving the extraction of bilingual terminology from Wikipedia

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Erdmann, Maike ^a   Nakayama, Kotaro ^b   Hara, Takahiro ^a   Nishio, Shojiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilingual dictionary; Link analysis; Wikipedia mining

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC CONSTRUCTION; BILINGUAL DICTIONARY; LABELED TRAINING DATA; LANGUAGE PAIRS; LINK ANALYSIS; PARALLEL CORPORA; SVM CLASSIFIERS; TERMINOLOGY EXTRACTION; TRANSLATION PAIR; WIKIPEDIA; WIKIPEDIA MINING;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; TERMINOLOGY;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 75649131103     PISSN: 15516857     EISSN: 15516865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1596990.1596995     Document Type: Article

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