The human language project: Building a universal corpus of the world's languages

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2010-July, Issue , 2010, Pages 88-97

  Abney, Steven ^a   Bird, Steven ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILINGUAL LEXICONS; BILINGUAL TEXTS; DATATYPES; GRAND CHALLENGE; HUMAN LANGUAGE; LARGE-SCALES; LINGUISTIC COMMUNITIES; LINGUISTIC PROCESSING; TRAIN SYSTEMS;

EID: 85118465866     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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