Automatic Extraction of Named Entity Translingual Equivalence Based on Multi-Feature Cost Minimization

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Huang, Fei ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a   Waibel, Alex ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; COST MINIMIZATION; CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; FEATURE ALIGNMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MULTIFEATURES; NAMED ENTITIES; NAMED ENTITIES PAIRS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 85117586053     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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