Sentence-level event classification in unstructured texts

Information Retrieval

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 132-156

  Naughton, M ^a   Stokes, N ^a   Carthy, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Event detection; Information extraction; Language modeling; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954080020     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-009-9113-0     Document Type: Article

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