Robust Approach to Abbreviating Terms: A Discriminative Latent Variable Model with Global Information

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Joint Conf. of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 4th Int. Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, Proceedings of the Conf.

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 905-913

  Sun, Xu ^a   Okazaki, Naoaki ^a   Tsujii, Jun’ichi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

CASE BASED REASONING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

CHINESE LANGUAGE; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; EXPLICIT SOLUTIONS; GLOBAL INFORMATIONS; IMPLICIT SOLUTIONS; LABEL ENCODING; LATENT VARIABLE MODELING; LOCAL INFORMATION; NONLOCAL; ROBUST APPROACHES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79951763109     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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