A very very large corpus doesn't always yield reliable estimates

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Curran, James R ^a   Osborne, Miles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE BEHAVIORS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LARGE CORPORA; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PROBABILITY ESTIMATE; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SMALL TRAINING; SPARSENESS PROBLEM; STATISTIC MODELING; TRAINING CORPUS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85093352555     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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