Language identification of names with SVMs

NAACL HLT 2010 - Human Language Technologies: The 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 693-696

  Bhargava, Aditya ^a   Kondrak, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNTS-AS; LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION; LANGUAGE MODEL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 79959459068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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