Generalised PP-attachment disambiguation using corpus-based linguistic diagnostics

10th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 251-258

  Merlo, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

BINARY CLASSIFIERS; CORPUS-BASED; PERFORMANCE;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 33748639790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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