Evaluation-driven design of a robust coreference resolution system

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 281-306

  Popescu Belis, Andrei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; LINGUISTICS;

CONFERENCE RESOLUTION SYSTEMS;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 0141493862     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S135132490300319X     Document Type: Article

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