Japanese Zero Pronoun Resolution based on Ranking Rules and Machine Learning

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 184-191

  Isozaki, Hideki ^a   Hirao, Tsutomu ^a  

^a NTT Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ANAPHORA RESOLUTION; ANAPHORS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; MACHINE-LEARNING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PRONOUN RESOLUTION; RANKING RULES; RESEARCH TOPICS; RULE LEARNING;

MACHINE LEARNING;

EID: 26844447885     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1119355.1119379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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