Finding hedges by chasing weasels: Hedge detection using Wikipedia tags and shallow linguistic features

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 173-176

  Ganter, Viola ^a   Strube, Michael ^a  

^a EML Research gGmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; LINGUISTIC HEDGES; SYNTACTIC PATTERNS; TRAINING DATA; WEASEL WORDS; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; WEBSITES; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

FENCES; WOODEN FENCES;

EID: 78751482728     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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