A statistical model for unsupervised and semi-supervised transliteration mining

50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 469-477

  Sajjad, Hassan ^a   Fraser, Alexander ^a   Schmid, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE PAIRS; PARALLEL CORPORA; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SUBMODELS; TRANSLITERATION PAIRS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84878188380     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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