Automatic acquisition of biographic knowledge from encyclopedic texts

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 261-270

  Hull, Richard ^a   Gomez, Fernando ^b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Deverbal nominalization; Noun phrase; Prepositional phrase; Semantic interpreter

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000660105     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4174(98)00075-X     Document Type: Article

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