Climbing the tower of babel: Unsupervised multilingual learning

ICML 2010 - Proceedings, 27th International Conference on Machine Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 29-36

  Snyder, Benjamin ^a   Barzilay, Regina ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HUMAN LANGUAGE; MORPHOLOGICAL SEGMENTATION; MULTILINGUAL LEARNING; NATURALLY OCCURRING; PART OF SPEECH TAGGING; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SYNTACTIC PARSING;

LINGUISTICS; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

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