Weakly supervised part-of-speech tagging for morphologically-rich, resource-scarce languages

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 363-371

  Hasan, Kazi Saidul ^a   Ng, Vincent ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; ENGLISH POS TAGGING; FULLY BAYESIAN APPROACHES; PART OF SPEECH TAGGING; POS TAGGERS; POS TAGGING; TAGGED DATA; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80053281274     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1609067.1609107     Document Type: Conference Paper

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