Zero-anaphora resolution by learning rich syntactic pattern features

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Iida, Ryu ^a   Inui, Kentaro ^a   Matsumoto, Yuji ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anaphora resolution; Zero pronouns

Indexed keywords

DEMONSTRATIONS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

INTERSENTENTIAL; ZERO-ANAPHORA RESOLUTION;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 38149129444     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1316457.1316458     Document Type: Article

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