Unsupervised word segmentation for sesotho using adaptor grammars

SIGMORPHON 2008 - 10th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 20-27

  Johnson, Mark ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; NON-PARAMETRIC BAYESIAN MODELING; PRIOR-KNOWLEDGE; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; WORD SEGMENTATION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 84926340035     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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