Adding semantic roles to the Chinese Treebank

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 143-172

  Xue, Nianwen ^a   Palmer, Martha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

ARGUMENT STRUCTURES; EVALUATION RESULTS; LEXICAL DATABASES; PARSE TREES; PHRASE STRUCTURES; SEMANTIC ROLE LABELS; SEMANTIC ROLES; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES; SYNTACTIC VARIATIONS; TREEBANK;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 57649121671     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324908004865     Document Type: Article

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