Identification and resolution of Chinese zero pronouns: A machine learning approach

EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 541-550

  Zhao, Shanheng ^a   Ng, Hwee Tou ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING APPROACH; MACHINE-LEARNING; PRONOUN RESOLUTION; RULE-BASED APPROACH;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 54249148725     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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