Frequency estimates for statistical word similarity measures

Proceedings of the 2003 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, HLT-NAACL 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Terra, Egidio ^a   Clarke, C L A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPARATIVES STUDIES; FREQUENCY ESTIMATES; LANGUAGE INFORMATIONS; LANGUAGE MODEL; SIMILARITY MEASURE; STATISTICAL MEASURES; TARGET WORDS; WEB DATA; WORD CO-OCCURRENCE; WORD SIMILARITY;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 85118711993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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