ParaSense or how to use parallel corpora for Word Sense Disambiguation

ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 317-322

  Lefever, Els ^a,b   Hoste, Véronique ^a,b   De Cock, Martine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BAG OF WORDS; CROSS-LINGUAL; FEATURE VECTORS; PARALLEL CORPORA; TARGET LANGUAGE; WORD ALIGNMENT; WORD SENSE; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84856055731     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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