The importance of syntactic parsing and inference in semantic role labeling

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 257-287

  Punyakanok, Vasin ^a   Roth, Dan ^b   Yih, Wen Tau ^c  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

DECISION PROCESS; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; RECALL AND PRECISION; SEMANTIC ROLE LABELING; SIMPLE APPROACH; STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS; SYNTACTIC PARSING;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 45749086553     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli.2008.34.2.257     Document Type: Article

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