Learning the countability of english nouns from corpus data

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2003-July, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Baldwin, Timothy ^a   Bond, Francis ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

FEATURES VECTOR; SYNTACTIC PROPERTIES; TEXT CORPORA;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 33645976960     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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