A discriminative alignment model for abbreviation recognition

Coling 2008 - 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 657-664

  Okazaki, Naoaki ^a   Ananiadou, Sophia ^b   Tsujii, Jun'ichi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

ABBREVIATION RECOGNITION; ALIGNMENT PROBLEMS; LARGE AMOUNTS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY FRAMEWORKS; OPTIMAL ALIGNMENTS; OPTIMAL COMBINATION;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 80053399837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1599081.1599164     Document Type: Conference Paper

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