A universal feature schema for rich morphological annotation and fine-grained cross-lingual part-of-speech tagging

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 537, Issue , 2015, Pages 72-93

  Sylak Glassman, John ^a   Kirov, Christo ^a   Post, Matt ^a   Que, Roger ^a   Yarowsky, David ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross linguistic projection; Inflectional morphology; Linguistic typology; Universal schema

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

CO-REFERENCE RESOLUTIONS; CONSTRUCTION METHODOLOGY; CROSS-LINGUISTIC PROJECTION; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; PART OF SPEECH TAGGING; UNIVERSAL SCHEMA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84945966759     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23980-4_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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