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Acquisition of Translation Knowledge of Syntactically Ambiguous Named Entity

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Advances in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2005)

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Bilingual dictionaries are essential components of cross-lingual information retrieval applications. The automatic acquisition of proper names and their translations from bilingual corpora is especially important, because a significant portion of the entries not listed in the dictionaries would be proper names.

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  1. SHARP Corporation, 492 Minosho-cho, Yamatokoriyama-shi, Nara, 639-1186, Japan

    Takeshi Kutsumi & Ichiko Sata

  2. Ryukoku University, 1-5 Yokotani, Setaoe-cho, Otsu-shi, Shiga, 520-2925, Japan

    Takehiko Yoshimi

  3. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 3-5 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0289, Japan

    Takehiko Yoshimi, Katsunori Kotani & Hitoshi Isahara

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  1. Departamento de Electrónica y Computación, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    David E. Losada

  2. Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial E.T.S.I. Informática y de Telecomunicación, Universidad de Granada, 18071, Granada, Spain

    Juan M. Fernández-Luna

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Kutsumi, T., Yoshimi, T., Kotani, K., Sata, I., Isahara, H. (2005). Acquisition of Translation Knowledge of Syntactically Ambiguous Named Entity. In: Losada, D.E., Fernández-Luna, J.M. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3408. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31865-1_42

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