Measuring the non-compositionality of multiword expressions

Coling 2010 - 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 116-124

  Bu, Fan ^a   Zhu, Xiaoyan ^a   Li, Ming ^b  

^a TSINGHUA NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE TEXTS; MULTIWORD EXPRESSIONS; NAMED ENTITY EXTRACTION; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES; QUESTION ANSWERING; STATE-OF-THE-ART METHODS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 79951474690     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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