Character-level dependencies in Chinese: Usefulness and learning

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 879-887

  Zhao, Hai ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER LEVEL; CHINESE INFORMATION PROCESSING; CHINESE SENTENCE; CHINESE TEXT; DEPENDENCY PARSING;

DATA PROCESSING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84859915870     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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