Exploiting parallel texts to produce a multilingual sense tagged corpus for word sense disambiguation

International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP

Volumn 2005-January, Issue , 2005, Pages 525-531

  Specia, Lucia ^a   Das Graças, Maria ^a   Nunes, Volpe ^a   Stevenson, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

AUTOMATIC CREATIONS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; PARALLEL CORPORA; PARALLEL TEXT; SENSE-TAGGED CORPUS; STATE OF THE ART; STATISTICAL ALIGNMENTS; WORD SENSE; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION SYSTEMS;

MACHINE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84962737129     PISSN: 13138502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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