The English lexical substitution task

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 139-159

  McCarthy, Diana ^a   Navigli, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lexical substitution; SemEval 2007; Word sense disambiguation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649548357     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-009-9084-1     Document Type: Article

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