A comparison of merging strategies for translation of german compounds

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 61-69

  Stymne, Sara ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MERGING; SYNTACTICS;

EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE; INTERNAL SOURCE; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; MERGING STRATEGY; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGS; PARTS OF SPEECH; SEQUENCE MODELING; TRANSLATION PROCESS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84857571141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1609179.1609187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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