Cross-lingual transfer of named entity recognizers without parallel corpora

ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 390-396

  Zirikly, Ayah ^a   Hagiwara, Masato ^b  

^a The George Washington University   (United States)

^b Duolingo Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS;

CROSS-LINGUAL; E-COMMERCE DOMAINS; NAMED ENTITIES; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; PARALLEL CORPORA; PARALLEL DATA; WORD REPRESENTATIONS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84944067532     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/p15-2064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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