Cross-lingual annotation projection of semantic roles

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Volumn 36, Issue , 2009, Pages 307-340

  Padó, Sebastian ^a   Lapata, Mirella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS-LINGUAL; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FRAMENET; GRAPH OPTIMIZATION; HIGH-PRECISION; PARALLEL CORPORA; PROJECTION MODELS; SEMANTIC ANNOTATIONS; SEMANTIC RESOURCES; SEMANTIC ROLES; SYNTACTIC INFORMATION;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 73649124220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10769757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1613/jair.2863     Document Type: Article

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