Slacker semantics: Why superficiality, dependency and avoidance of commitment can be the right way to go

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-9

  Copestake, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPOSITIONAL SEMANTICS; GRAMMAR ENGINEERING; MINIMAL RECURSION SEMANTICS; SEMANTIC DEPENDENCY; SEMANTIC ROLES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 79953232496     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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