Acquiring causal knowledge from text using the connective marker tame

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 435-474

  Inui, Takashi ^a,c   Inui, Kentaro ^b   Matsumoto, Yuji ^b  

^a JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Causal relation; Connective marker; Volitionality

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL RELATION; CONNECTIVE MARKER; VOLITIONALITY;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA PROCESSING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 33745125716     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15300226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1113308.1113313     Document Type: Review

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