Exploiting qualitative information from automatic word alignment for cross-lingual NLP tasks

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 771-776

  De Souza, José G C ^a   Esplà Gomis, Miquel ^b   Turchi, Marco ^a   Negri, Matteo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

LANGUAGE PAIRS; QUALITATIVE ASPECTS; QUALITATIVE INFORMATION; SEMANTIC RELATIONS; STATE OF THE ART; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY; TRAINING DATA; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84906926879     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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