What can we get from 1000 tokens? A case study of multilingual pos tagging for resource-poor languages

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

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 886-897

  Duong, Long ^a,b   Cohn, Trevor ^a   Verspoor, Karin ^a   Bird, Steven ^a   Cook, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS;

ALTERNATE METHOD; DATA REQUIREMENTS; PARALLEL DATA; PART OF SPEECH; PART OF SPEECH TAGGING; RESOURCE-RICH; STATE OF THE ART; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84961289608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/d14-1096     Document Type: Conference Paper

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