Correcting semantic collocation errors with L1-induced paraphrases

EMNLP 2011 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 107-117

  Dahlmeier, Daniel ^a   Ng, Hwee Tou ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDIT DISTANCE; PARALLEL CORPORA; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; WORDNET;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERROR CORRECTION; SEMANTICS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053230840     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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