Statistical transliteration for cross langauge information retrieval using HMM alignment and CRF

CLIA 2008 - 2nd International Workshop on Cross Lingual Information Access: Addressing the Information Need of Multilingual Societies - 3rd International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2008 - Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 42-47

  Ganesh, Surya ^a   Harsha, Sree ^a   Pingali, Prasad ^a   Varma, Vasudeva ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CHARACTER LEVEL; DISCRIMINATIVE MODELS; EXPECTATIONS MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; N-GRAMS; POSTERIOR PREDICTIONS; STATISTICAL TRANSLITERATION; TARGET WORDS; WORD-PAIRS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 85107780626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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