Dependency parsing of modern standard arabic with lexical and inflectional features

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 161-194

  Marton, Yuval ^a   Habash, Nizar ^b   Rambow, Owen ^b  

^a NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DEPENDENCY PARSING; FINE GRAINED; FUNCTIONAL FEATURES; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; MODERN STANDARDS; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; PART OF SPEECH;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84874622627     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/COLI_a_00138     Document Type: Article

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