A Corpus-based Investigation of Definite Description Use

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1998, Pages

  Poesio, Massimo ^a   Vieira, Renata ^a  

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CLASSIFICATION SCHEME; CORPUS ANNOTATIONS; CORPUS-BASED; DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS; EVALUATING SYSTEMS; HAWKINS; WRITTEN TEXTS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 0000673871     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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