An inference model for semantic entailment in natural language

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1043-1049

  De Salvo Braz, Rodrigo ^a   Girju, Roxana ^a   Punyakanok, Vasin ^a   Roth, Dan ^a   Sammons, Mark ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

HIERARCHICAL KNOWLEDGE; INFERENCE MODEL; SEMANTIC ENTAILMENT; TEXT COLLECTION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 29344461064     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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