Exploiting semantic role resources for preposition disambiguation

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 151-184

  O'Hara, Tom ^a   Wiebe, Janyce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

CONCEPTUAL GRAPH; KNOWLEDGE BASE; KNOWLEDGE BASIS; LEXICAL ACQUISITION; PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE; SEMANTIC ROLE ANNOTATIONS; SEMANTIC ROLES; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 67149107214     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli.06-79-prep15     Document Type: Article

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