Using phrasal verbs as an index to distinguish text genres

Proceedings of the Twentieth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 217-222

  Dempsey, Kyle B ^a   McCarthy, Philip M ^a   McNamara, Danielle S ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMAL/INFORMAL DIMENSIONS; PHRASAL VERBS; TEXT GENRES; TEXT-IDENTIFICATION RESEARCH;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); STATISTICAL METHODS;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 37349113382     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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