Discourse connective argument identification with connective specific rankers

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing 2008, ICSC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 198-205

  Elwell, Robert ^a   Baldridge, Jason ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCOURSE PATTERNS; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; GENERAL MODEL; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES;

SEMANTICS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 52149088533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSC.2008.50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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