Extraction of definitions using grammar-enhanced machine learning

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 88-96

  Westerhout, Eline ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE LEARNING;

BALANCED DATASETS; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; IMBALANCED DATA-SETS; RULE BASED; TEXT CORPORA; TWO MACHINES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 77955435571     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1609179.1609190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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