Cross-lingual Slot Filling from Comparable Corpora

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 110-119

  Snover, Matthew ^a   Li, Xiang ^a   Lin, Wen Pin ^a   Chen, Zheng ^a   Tamang, Suzanne ^a   Ge, Mingmin ^a   Lee, Adam ^a   Li, Qi ^a   Li, Hao ^a   Anzaroot, Sam ^a   Ji, Heng ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

BILINGUAL COMPARABLE CORPORA; COMPARABLE CORPORA; CROSS-LINGUAL; FILLING PIPELINES; LABELED DATA; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; NEW APPROACHES; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; VALIDATION APPROACH;

FILLING;

EID: 84870563079     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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