Abstract

Empirical results are presented for creating training data and training a statistical name learning algorithm on Cebuano and Hindi in roughly three weeks time. The empirical study compares performance in a compressed time frame against performance of the same statistical language model in English (where there was no compressed time frame). Rapid development of several co-reference heuristics in Hindi are also described, and co-reference performance in Hindi is compared to previously developed English techniques.

Date

2003

Authors

Jonathan May, Ada Brunstein, Prem Natarajan, Ralph Weischedel

Journal

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP)

Volume

2

Issue

3

Pages

169-180

Publisher

ACM