An algorithm for unsupervised transliteration mining with an application to word alignment

ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 430-439

  Sajjad, Hassan ^a   Fraser, Alexander ^a   Schmid, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; DATA SETS; F-MEASURE; GOLD STANDARDS; PARALLEL CORPORA; PRECISION AND RECALL; SEMI-SUPERVISED; TRANSLITERATION PAIRS; WORD ALIGNMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; GOLD;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84859088243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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