Assessing the impact of frame semantics on textual entailment

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 527-550

  Burchardt, Aljoscha ^a   Pennacchiotti, Marco ^a   Thater, Stefan ^a   Pinkal, Manfred ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT SYSTEM; FRAMENET; SEMANTIC ANALYSIS; SEMANTIC ANNOTATIONS; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; SEMANTIC LEXICON; TEST SETS; TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 76449100314     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324909990131     Document Type: Article

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