Unsupervised translation induction for chinese abbreviations using monolingual corpora

ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 425-433

  Li, Zhifei ^a   Yarowsky, David ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SYSTEMS; CHINESE TEXT; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; PARALLEL CORPORA; TEST SETS; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; UNSUPERVISED METHOD;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84859922619     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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