A lightweight tool for automatically extracting causal relationships from text

Conference Proceedings - IEEE SOUTHEASTCON

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 125-129

  Cole, Stephen V ^a   Royal, Matthew D ^b   Valtorta, Marco G ^c   Huhns, Michael N ^c   Bowles, John B ^c  

^a BENEDICTINE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Pensacola Christian College   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SYNTACTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

BAYESIAN NETWORK FRAGMENTS; CAUSAL RELATION DETECTION; VERB-OBJECT TRIPLES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33751116581     PISSN: 10910050     EISSN: 1558058X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/second.2006.1629336     Document Type: Conference Paper

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