A maximum entropy approach to combining word alignments

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 96-103

  Ayan, Necip Fazil ^a   Dorr, Bonnie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ENTROPY; HEURISTIC METHODS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ALIGNMENT DECISIONS; COMBINATION METHOD; FEATURE FUNCTION; LANGUAGE PAIRS; LEARNING METHODS; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; MAXIMUM-ENTROPY APPROACHES; NEW APPROACHES;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84858428141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220835.1220848     Document Type: Conference Paper

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