Paragraph-, word-, and coherence-based approaches to sentence ranking: A comparison of algorithm and human performance

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 383-390

  Wolf, Florian ^a   Gibson, Edward ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

ALGORITHM PERFORMANCE; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; IMPORTANCE RATING; MS-WORD; PERFORMANCE; POOR PERFORMANCE; PROPERTY; SIMPLE++; TREE STRUCTURES; WORD FREQUENCIES;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 33745550708     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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