Bootstrapping Lexical Choice via Multiple-Sequence Alignment

Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 164-171

  Barzilay, Regina ^a   Lee, Lillian ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER GENERATED; GENERATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE-BASED METHODS; LABOUR-INTENSIVE; LATENT INFORMATION; LEXICAL CHOICE; MULTIPLE PASS; MULTIPLE SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PARALLEL CORPORA;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 85037067385     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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