Part-of-Speech tagging for English-Spanish code-switched text

EMNLP 2008 - 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1051-1060

  Solorio, Thamar ^a   Liu, Yang ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MACHINE LEARNING;

CODE-SWITCHING; LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION; LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA; PART OF SPEECH TAGGING; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGER; SIMPLE HEURISTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79958864173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1613715.1613852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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