Improving Word Alignment by Adjusting Chinese Word Segmentation

IJCNLP 2008 - 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 249-256

  Bai, Ming Hong ^a,b   Chen, Keh Jiann ^a   Chang, Jason S ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TERMINOLOGY;

'CURRENT; ADJUSTING METHOD; CHINESE WORD SEGMENTATION; PERFORMANCE; UNSUPERVISED METHOD; WORD ALIGNMENT; WORD SEGMENTATION; WORD SEGMENTATION SYSTEMS;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 84858407295     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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