Comparison of alignment templates and maximum entropy models for natural language understanding

10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 11-18

  Bender, Oliver ^a   Macherey, Klaus ^a   Och, Franz Josef ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; ENTROPY; FORMAL LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

MAXIMUM ENTROPY FRAMEWORKS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY MODELS; MAXIMUM-ENTROPY APPROACHES; NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TEMPLATE METHODS;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84987835782     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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