Discriminative word alignment with conditional random fields

COLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 65-72

  Blunsom, Phil ^a   Cohn, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ALIGNMENT ERROR; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; DECODING PROCESS; DISCRIMINATIVE MODELS; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OVERLAPPING FEATURES; SUPERVISED TRAININGS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 84857512055     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220175.1220184     Document Type: Conference Paper

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