Spelling correction as an iterative process that exploits the collective knowledge of web users

Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2004 - A meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL held in conjunction with ACL 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 293-300

  Cucerzan, Silviu ^a   Brill, Eric ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EXPLICIT INFORMATION; IMPLICIT INFORMATIONS; INTERNET SEARCH-ENGINES; ITERATIVE PROCESS; ITERATIVE TRANSFORMATION; LARGE AMOUNTS; SEARCH QUERIES; SPELLING CORRECTION; USER QUERY; WEB USERS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 79953004326     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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