An empirical symbolic approach to natural language processing

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 85, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 59-99

  Basili, Roberto ^a   Pazienza, Maria Teresa ^a   Velardi, Paola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH;

LARGE SCALE LEXICAL LEARNING SYSTEM; SUBLANGUAGES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030213062     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0004-3702(95)00116-6     Document Type: Article

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