Learning and evaluating the content and structure of a term taxonomy

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn SS-09-07, Issue , 2009, Pages 50-57

  Kozareva, Zornitsa ^a   Hovy, Eduard ^b   Riloff, Ellen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING ALGORITHM; CONTENT AND STRUCTURE; SEED WORDS;

ANIMALS; SEED; TAXONOMIES;

EDUCATION;

EID: 70350532442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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