A machine learning approach to coreference resolution of noun phrases

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 521-544

  Soon, Wee Meng ^a   Lim, Daniel Chung Yong ^a   Ng, Hwee Tou ^a  

^a NONE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE LEARNING;

CO-REFERENCE RESOLUTIONS; COMMON DATUM; CONFERENCE RESOLUTION; ENTITY-TYPES; LEARNING APPROACH; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; STATE OF THE ART; UNRESTRICTED TEXTS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0039891959     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089120101753342653     Document Type: Article

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