A corpus-based evaluation of centering and pronoun resolution

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 507-520

  Tetreault, Joel R ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTERING THEORIES; CORPUS-BASED; LIST RANKINGS; PRONOUN RESOLUTION;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 0039299874     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089120101753342644     Document Type: Article

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