Variation of Entropy and Parse Trees of Sentences as a Function of the Sentence Number

Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 65-72

  Genzel, Dmitriy ^a   Charniak, Eugene ^a  

^a Brown Univerity   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BRANCHING FACTORS; ENTROPY RATES; ENTROPY VARIATION; INFORMATIVENESS; PARSE TREES; RELATED WORKS; TREE-DEPTH;

ENTROPY;

EID: 24344487615     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1119355.1119364     Document Type: Conference Paper

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