Word triggers and the EM algorithm

CoNLL 1997 - Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the 1997 Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Natural Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 117-124

  Tillmann, Christoph ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMBINED MODELING; EM ALGORITHMS; INTERACTION PARAMETERS; LANGUAGE MODEL; SINGLE WORDS; TRIGRAM MODEL; WORD-PAIRS;

EID: 85119193379     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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