Semi-Markov phrase-based monolingual alignment

EMNLP 2013 - 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 590-600

  Yao, Xuchen ^a   Van Durme, Benjamin ^a   Callison Burch, Chris ^b   Clark, Peter ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENTS; ALIGNMENT ACCURACY; DISCRIMINATIVE MODELS; NON-IDENTICAL; PARAPHRASE IDENTIFICATIONS; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; QUESTION ANSWERING; STATE OF THE ART;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84926345262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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