Panlingual lexical translation via probabilistic inference

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 174, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 619-637

  Mausam, ^a   Soderland, Stephen ^a   Etzioni, Oren ^a   Weld, Daniel S ^a   Reiter, Kobi ^a   Skinner, Michael ^a   Sammer, Marcus ^a   Bilmes, Jeff ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Lexical translation; Multilinguality

Indexed keywords

AT PRECISION; INFERENCE ALGORITHM; INFERENCE PROBLEM; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MACHINE-READABLE DICTIONARIES; MULTILINGUAL DICTIONARIES; MULTILINGUALITY; PRECISION AND RECALL; PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE; WORD SENSE;

INFERENCE ENGINES; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 77951134913     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2010.04.020     Document Type: Article

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