Adding more languages improves unsupervised multilingual part-of-speech tagging: A Bayesian non-parametric approach

NAACL HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 83-91

  Snyder, Benjamin ^a   Naseem, Tahira ^a   Eisenstein, Jacob ^a   Barzilay, Regina ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LATENT VARIABLE; NON-PARAMETRIC BAYESIAN; NONPARAMETRIC APPROACHES; PARALLEL DATA; PART OF SPEECH TAGGING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84858379565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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