Smoothing a lexicon-based POS tagger for Arabic and Hebrew

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 97-103

  Mansour, Saib ^a   Sima'An, Khalil ^b   Winter, Yoad ^a,c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences NIAS KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; LEXICON-BASED; MODERN STANDARDS; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYZER; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGER; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SEMITIC LANGUAGES; STANDARD ARABICS; STATE OF THE ART;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 85121314288     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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