Generating discourse structures for written texts

COLING 2004 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  LeThanh, Huong ^a   Abeysinghe, Geetha ^a   Huyck, Christian ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORESTRY;

BEAM SEARCH; CUE PHRASE; DISCOURSE PARSERS; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; SEARCH SPACES; SENTENCE LEVEL; SYNTACTIC INFORMATION; TREEBANKS; WRITTEN TEXTS;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 79551559082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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