Evaluating roget's thesauri

ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 416-424

  Kennedy, Alistair ^a   Szpakowicz, Stan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WORDNET;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY;

THESAURI;

EID: 77953732058     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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