Another look at causality: Discovering scenario-specific contingency relationships with no supervision

Proceedings - 2010 IEEE 4th International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 361-368

  Riaz, Mehwish ^a   Girju, Roxana ^a  

^a University of Illinois ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Contingency; Scenario; Topics

Indexed keywords

CAUSALITY; CONTINGENCY; HURRICANE KATRINA; IRAQ WAR; NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; NEWS ARTICLES; PRECISION-RECALL PERFORMANCE; SCENARIO; TOPICS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 79952047541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSC.2010.19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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