Whyisenglishsoeasytosegment?

CMCL 2013 - Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-10

  Fourtassi, Abdellah ^a   Börschinger, Benjamin ^b,c   Johnson, Mark ^c   Dupoux, Emmanuel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; SEGMENTATION AMBIGUITIES; SEGMENTATION PERFORMANCE; STRUCTURE COMPLEXITY; SYLLABLE STRUCTURES; TRADE OFF; UNIGRAM MODELS; WORD LENGTH; WORD SEGMENTATION;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84961252393     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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