Parsing vs. text processing in the analysis of dictionary definitions

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1988-June, Issue , 1988, Pages 217-224

  Ahlswede, Thomas ^a   Evens, Martha ^a  

^a ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS; POSSIBLE FUTURES; TEXT-PROCESSING;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 0347480915     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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