An analysis of human judgements on semantic classification of catalan adjectives

Research on Language and Computation

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 247-271

  Boleda, Gemma ^a   Schulte Im Walde, Sabine ^b   Badia, Toni ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adjectives; Catalan; Human judgements; Inter annotator agreement; Semantic classes; Web experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149328393     PISSN: 15707075     EISSN: 15728706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11168-008-9056-4     Document Type: Article

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