Distributional thesaurus versus WordNet: A comparison of backoff techniques for unsupervised PP attachment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3406, Issue , 2005, Pages 177-188

  Calvo, Hiram ^a   Gelbukh, Alexander ^a   Kilgarriff, Adam ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b LEXICAL COMPUTING LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LINGUISTICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BACKOFF TECHNIQUES; NON-ANNOTATED CORPUS; PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE (PP);

THESAURI;

EID: 24344473862     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30586-6_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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