The Affect of Machine Translation on the Performance of Arabic-English QA System

EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Question Answering, MLQA 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 9-14

  Al Maskari, Azzah ^a   Sanderson, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARABIC-ENGLISH; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PERFORMANCE; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; QUESTION ANSWERING TRACK;

MACHINE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84897377225     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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