Getting the structure right for word alignment: LEAF

EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 51-60

  Fraser, Alexander ^a   Marcu, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINATIVE MODELS; GENERATIVE MODEL; PARALLEL TEXT; SEMI-SUPERVISED; STRUCTURAL ASSUMPTION; TRAINING METHODS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053343808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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