Annotating a corpus to develop and evaluate discourse entity realization algorithms: Issues and preliminary results

2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Poesio, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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ANNOTATION SCHEME; CODED ALGORITHMS;

SEMANTICS;

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