Recognizing cross-lingual textual entailment with co-training using similarity and difference views

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3705-3712

  Zhao, Jiang ^a   Lan, Man ^a   Niu, Zheng Yu ^b   Ji, Donghong ^c  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BAIDU INC   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

BASELINE SYSTEMS; CROSS-LINGUAL; HUMAN ANNOTATIONS; KULLBACK-LEIBLER; OFF-THE-SHELF MACHINE; SIMILARITY MEASURE; TEXT FRAGMENTS; TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT;

MACHINE LEARNING;

EID: 84908472313     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2014.6889713     Document Type: Conference Paper

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