A Semi-supervised Word Alignment Algorithm with Partial Manual Alignments

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-10

  Gao, Qin ^a   Bach, Nguyen ^a   Vogel, Stephan ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; BILINGUAL DICTIONARY; EM ALGORITHMS; HIGH-PRECISION; HUMAN LABELLING; IBM MODELS; MANUAL ALIGNMENT; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SEMI-SUPERVISED ALGORITHM; WORD ALIGNMENT;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 85122544006     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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