Using bilingual Chinese-English word alignments to resolve PP-attachment ambiguity in English

AMTA 2008 - 8th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fossum, Victoria ^a   Knight, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLINS; DISCRIMINATIVE METHODS; ENGLISH PARSER; NOUN PHRASE; PARSE TREES; TEST SETS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

INFORMATION THEORY;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84858017091     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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