Mining and modeling relations between formal and informal Chinese phrases from web corpora

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 1031-1040

  Li, Zhifei ^a   Yarowsky, David ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

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LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEXT PROCESSING; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EXTRACTION PROCESS; FEATURE FUNCTION; INSTANT MESSAGING; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MODELING RELATIONS; TEXT NORMALIZATIONS; TEXT PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

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EID: 80053359200     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1613715.1613849     Document Type: Conference Paper

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