A metric-based framework for automatic taxonomy induction

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Joint Conf. of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 4th Int. Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, Proceedings of the Conf.

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 271-279

  Yang, Hui ^a   Callan, Jamie ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; SEMANTICS; TAXONOMIES;

FLEXIBLE DESIGNS; HETEROGENEOUS FEATURES; LEXICO-SYNTACTIC PATTERNS; MULTICRITERIA OPTIMIZATION; SEMANTIC DISTANCE; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM; TYPES OF RELATIONS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955275622     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1687878.1687918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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