Measuring Chinese-English cross-lingual word similarity with HowNet and parallel corpus

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6609 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2011, Pages 221-233

  Xia, Yunqing ^a   Zhao, Taotao ^a,b   Yao, Jianmin ^b   Jin, Peng ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LESHAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cross lingual information access; Cross lingual word similarity; HowNet; parallel corpus

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK DATASETS; CO-OCCURRENCE STATISTICS; CROSS-LINGUAL; CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION; DATA SETS; HOWNET; KNOWLEDGE BASE; PARALLEL CORPORA; WORD SIMILARITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 79952256141     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19437-5_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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