Word segmentation as general chunking

CoNLL 2011 - Fifteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 39-47

  Hewlett, Daniel ^a   Cohen, Paul ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; GENERAL PURPOSE; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LINGUISTIC MODELS; WORD SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; ENTROPY; INFORMATION THEORY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84862288892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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