A study on bootstrapping bilingual vector spaces from non-parallel data (and Nothing Else)

EMNLP 2013 - 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1613-1624

  Vulić, Ivan ^a   Moens, Marie Francine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BILINGUAL LEXICON EXTRACTIONS; CONFIDENCE ESTIMATION; CORPUS-BASED; KEY ELEMENTS; LANGUAGE PAIRS; NEW DIMENSIONS; PARALLEL DATA; TEST SETS;

VECTOR SPACES;

EID: 84905705445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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