Mention detection crossing the language barrier

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 600-609

  Zitouni, Imed ^a   Florian, Radu ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

DERIVED FEATURES; DETECTION INFORMATIONS; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE BARRIERS; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; LINGUISTIC RESOURCES; LOW RESOURCE LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053373955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1613715.1613789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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