Fairy tales and ESL texts: An analysis of linguistic features using the gramulator

Proceedings of the 24th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society, FLAIRS - 24

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 287-292

  Rufenacht, Rachel M ^a   McCarthy, Philip M ^a   Lamkin, Travis A ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGLISH LANGUAGES; LINGUISTIC FEATURES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80052418903     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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