Improving word segmentation by simultaneously learning phonotactics

CoNLL 2008 - Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 65-72

  Blanchard, Daniel ^a   Heinz, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; TRI GRAMS; UNIGRAM MODELS; WORD SEGMENTATION; WORD SEGMENTATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 77952548445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1596324.1596336     Document Type: Conference Paper

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