An information theoretic approach to bilingual word clustering

ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 777-783

  Faruqui, Manaal ^a   Dyer, Chris ^a  

^a Language Technologies Institute Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

AVERAGE MUTUAL INFORMATION; CROSS-LINGUAL; HIGH QUALITY; INFORMATION-THEORETIC APPROACH; NER SYSTEM; PARALLEL CORPORA; WORD CLUSTERING; WORD-CLUSTERS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84905705452     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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