Extracting Pre-ordering Rules from Predicate-Argument Structures

IJCNLP 2011 - Proceedings of the 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 29-37

  Wu, Xianchao ^a   Sudoh, Katsuhito ^a   Duh, Kevin ^a   Tsukada, Hajime ^a   Nagata, Masaaki ^a  

^a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ARGUMENT STRUCTURES; ESSENTIAL PROBLEMS; ORDERING RULES; POSITION MAPPING; PRE ORDERINGS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; SOURCE LANGUAGE; STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES; TARGET LANGUAGE; WORD ORDERS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84876794140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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