MT error detection for cross-lingual question answering

Coling 2010 - 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 946-954

  Parton, Kristen ^a   McKeown, Kathleen ^a  

^a Columbia University New York ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CROSS-LINGUAL QUESTION ANSWERING; ERROR DETECTION ALGORITHMS; HIGH PRECISION; NOVEL ALGORITHM; QUERY TIME;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

ERROR DETECTION;

EID: 80053410551     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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