Towards a more consistent and comprehensive evaluation of anaphora resolution algorithms and systems

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 253-276

  Mitkov, Ruslan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC INDEXING; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ANAPHORA RESOLUTION ALGORITHMS; ANAPHORA RESOLUTION SYSTEMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0039893512     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08839510151063235     Document Type: Article

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