Cross-lingual semantic relatedness using encyclopedic knowledge

EMNLP 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of ACL, Held in Conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1192-1201

  Hassan, Samer ^a   Mihalcea, Rada ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SEMANTICS;

CROSS-LINGUAL; ENCYCLOPEDIC KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE PAIRS; MULTIPLE LANGUAGES; SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS; WIKIPEDIA;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953964628     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1699648.1699665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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