Less is more: Eliminating index terms from subordinate clauses

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1999-June, Issue , 1999, Pages 349-356

  Corston Oliver, Simon H ^a   Dolan, William B ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDEX TERMS; LESS IS MORES; LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; SUBORDINATE CLAUSE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 70350635700     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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