TriS: A Statistical Sentence Simplifier with Log-linear Models and Margin-based Discriminative Training

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 474-482

  Bach, Nguyen ^a   Gao, Qin ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a   Waibel, Alex ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

DEPENDENCY STRUCTURES; DISCRIMINATIVE LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; FEATURES SETS; LINGUISTIC RULES; LOGLINEAR MODEL; STACK DECODING; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS; SURFACE FORMS; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84878467687     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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