Supersense tagging for Arabic: The MT-in-The-middle attack

NAACL HLT 2013 - 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 661-667

  Schneider, Nathan ^a   Mohit, Behrang ^b   Dyer, Chris ^a   Oflazer, Kemal ^b   Smith, Noah A ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

^b NONE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIC WORDNET; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; SEQUENCE MODELS; WIKIPEDIA; WORDNET;

EID: 84906923987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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