An Unsupervised Alignment Algorithm for Text Simplification Corpus Construction

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 20-26

  Bott, Stefan ^a   Saggion, Horacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; BILINGUAL SENTENCE ALIGNMENTS; CORPUS CONSTRUCTION; LEXICAL SIMILARITY; PARALLEL TEXT; SENTENCE LEVEL; SENTENCE SIMILARITY; SIMILARITY METRICS; SPANISH LANGUAGE; TRAINING DATA;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84864793240     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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