Learning for semantic parsing with statistical machine translation

HLT-NAACL 2006 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 439-446

  Wong, Yuk Wah ^a   Mooney, Raymond J ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

LEARNING METHODS; LEXICAL ACQUISITION; SEMANTIC PARSING; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TASK COMPLEXITY; TRANSLATION MODELS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84858394994     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220835.1220891     Document Type: Conference Paper

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