Large-scale induction and evaluation of lexical resources from the Penn-II and Penn-III treebanks

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 329-365

  O'Donovan, Ruth ^a   Cahill, Aoife ^a   Way, Andy ^a,b   Burke, Michael ^a,b   Van Genabith, Josef ^a,b  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b Smarter Cities Technology Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; SEMANTICS;

FRAME TYPES; LEXICAL RESOURCES; LEXICAL-FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR; LONG-DISTANCE DEPENDENCIES; SOURCE DATA; SUBCATEGORIZATION; SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS; TREEBANKS;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

EID: 33646385856     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089120105774321073     Document Type: Article

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