Improving translation lexicon induction from monolingual corpora via dependency contexts and part-of-speech equivalences

CoNLL 2009 - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 129-137

  Garera, Nikesh ^a   Callison Burch, Chris ^a   Yarowsky, David ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CONTEXT MODELING; CONTEXT WINDOW; LONG-RANGE DEPENDENCIES; PARALLEL CORPORA; PART OF SPEECH; STATISTICAL TRANSLATION MODEL; TRANSLATION LEXICONS; CONTEXT MODELS; DEPENDENCY PARSER; PERFORMANCE;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 79952257884     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1596374.1596397     Document Type: Conference Paper

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