Multilingual annotation and disambiguation of discourse connectives for machine translation

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference: 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 194-203

  Meyer, Thomas ^a   Popescu Belis, Andrei ^a   Zufferey, Sandrine ^b   Cartoni, Bruno ^b  

^a IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL FEATURE; FEATURE ANALYSIS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MANUAL ANNOTATION; PARALLEL CORPORA; SURFACE FEATURE;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84857746879     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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