MINT: A method for effective and scalable mining of named entity transliterations from large comparable corpora

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 799-807

  Udupa, Raghavendra ^a   Saravanan, K ^a   Kumaran, A ^a   Jagarlamudi, Jagadeesh ^a,b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARABLE CORPORA; CROSS LANGUAGES; DOCUMENT SIMILARITY; EMPIRICAL FACTS; MINING ALGORITHMS; NAMED ENTITIES; NEWS ARTICLES; SIMILARITY MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MINTS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650668430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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