Improving word alignment using word similarity

EMNLP 2014 - 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1840-1845

  Songyot, Theerawat ^a   Chiang, David ^b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS; SYNTACTIC FEATURES; WORD ALIGNMENT; WORD SIMILARITY;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84961288866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/d14-1197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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