Stating with certainty or stating with doubt: Intercoder reliability results for manual annotation of epistemically modalized statements

NAACL-HLT 2007 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Companion Volume: Short Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 141-144

  Rubin, Victoria L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

MANUAL ANNOTATION; OPINION EXTRACTION; PRAGMATIC-CONTEXT; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS;

SENTIMENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649946259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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