Constraint-based models of lexical borrowing

NAACL HLT 2015 - 2015 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 598-608

  Tsvetkov, Yulia ^a   Ammar, Waleed ^a   Dyer, Chris ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; SPEECH;

CONSTRAINT-BASED MODELS; COST EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES; LEXICAL INFORMATION; OPTIMALITY THEORIES; TRAINING EXAMPLE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84960105845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/n15-1062     Document Type: Conference Paper

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