Large scale acquisition of paraphrases for learning surface patterns

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 674-682

  Bhagat, Rahul ^a   Ravichandran, Deepak ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SURFACE; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; QUESTION ANSWERING; RELATION EXTRACTION; STATE OF THE ART; SURFACE PATTERN; TEST RELATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TEXTILE PRINTING;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 77954628725     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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