Discriminative learning of selectional preference from unlabeled text

EMNLP 2008 - 2008 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 59-68

  Bergsma, Shane ^a   Lin, Dekang ^b   Goebel, Randy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

DISCRIMINATIVE LEARNING; DISCRIMINATIVE METHODS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NEGATIVE INSTANCES; POSITIVE EXAMPLES; PRONOUN RESOLUTION; SELECTIONAL PREFERENCES; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE CLASSIFIERS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 79952274978     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1613715.1613725     Document Type: Conference Paper

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