Climbing the tower of babel: Unsupervised multilingual learning

For centuries, scholars have explored the deep links among human languages. In this paper, we present a class of probabilistic models that use these links as a form of naturally occurring supervision. These models allow us to substantially improve performance for core text processing tasks, such as...

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Main Authors: Snyder, Benjamin (Contributor), Barzilay, Regina (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Omnipress, 2011-03-15T13:23:56Z.
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