Mining the web for discourse markers

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 407-410

  Hutchinson, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; DISCOURSE MARKERS; HUMAN PERFORMANCE;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 33744832330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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