Aiding Pronoun Translation with Co-Reference Resolution

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 252-261

  Le Nagard, Ronan ^a   Koehn, Philipp ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

COREFERENCE; COREFERENCE RESOLUTION; RESOLUTION METHODS;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 85122521016     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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