Feature-rich part-of-speech tagging for morphologically complex languages: Application to bulgarian

EACL 2012 - 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 492-502

  Georgiev, Georgi ^a   Zhikov, Valentin ^a   Osenova, Petya ^b   Simov, Kiril ^b   Nakov, Preslav ^c  

^a Sirma Group   (Bulgaria)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES   (Bulgaria)

^c QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; MORPHO-SYNTACTIC TAGS; PART OF SPEECH TAGGING; SLAVIC LANGUAGES; STATE OF THE ART;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84940844979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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