Detecting highly confidentword translations from comparable corpora without any prior knowledge

EACL 2012 - 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 449-459

  Vulić, Ivan ^a   Moens, Marie Francine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS;

COMPARABLE CORPORA; CROSS LANGUAGES; ENGLISH LANGUAGES; LANGUAGE PAIRS; LATENT TOPIC MODEL; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; STATE OF THE ART; WORD TRANSLATION;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84875421208     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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