Literal and metaphorical sense identification through concrete and abstract context

EMNLP 2011 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 680-690

  Turney, Peter D ^a   Neuman, Yair ^b   Assaf, Dan ^b   Cohen, Yohai ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c Gilasio Coding   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT DOMAINS; CONCRETE DOMAINS; DATA SETS; NON-LITERAL; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE; TECHNICAL TEXTS; TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT; WORD SENSE; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

ABSTRACTING; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053255626     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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