Building and refining rhetorical-semantic relation models

NAACL HLT 2007 - Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 428-435

  Blair Goldensohn, Sasha ^a   McKeown, Kathleen R ^b   Rambow, Owen C ^c  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION PROCESS; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; RELATION MODELS; SYNTACTIC PARSING; TEST SETS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

REFINING;

EID: 77956609861     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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