Identification of Sentence-to-Sentence Relations Using a Textual Entailer

Research on Language and Computation

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 209-229

  Rus, Vasile ^a   McCarthy, Philip M ^b   Graesser, Arthur C ^b   McNamara, Danielle S ^b  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependencies; Entailment; Intelligent tutoring systems; Paraphrasing

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956709325     PISSN: 15707075     EISSN: 15728706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11168-009-9065-y     Document Type: Article

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