Class-based probability estimation using a semantic hierarchy

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 187-206

  Clark, Stephen ^a   Weir, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CHI SQUARE STATISTIC; CHI-SQUARE TESTS; ESTIMATION METHODS; MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTH PRINCIPLE; PROBABILITY ESTIMATION; SELECTIONAL PREFERENCES; SEMANTIC HIERARCHIES; SPARSE DATA PROBLEM;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 0040669675     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089120102760173643     Document Type: Article

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