Using automatically labelled examples to classify rhetorical relations: An assessment

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 369-416

  Sporleder, Caroline ^a   Lascarides, Alex ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

AUTOMATIC LABELLING PROCESS; RHETORICAL RELATIONS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 44949130783     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324906004451     Document Type: Article

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