A New Objective Function for Word Alignment

NAACL HLT 2009 - Integer Linear Programming for Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 28-35

  Bodrumlu, Tugba ^a   Knight, Kevin ^a   Ravi, Sujith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BILINGUAL DICTIONARY; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; SUB WORDS; TURKISHS; WORD ALIGNMENT; WORD LEVEL;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 85172743749     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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