Automatic detection of nonreferential it in spoken multi-party dialog

EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 49-56

  Müller, Christoph ^a  

^a EML Research gGmbH   (Germany)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; CO-REFERENCE RESOLUTIONS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 34248584197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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