Classifying sentences as speech acts in message board posts

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 748-758

  Qadir, Ashequl ^a   Riloff, Ellen ^a  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATIVE ACTS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; EXTERNAL RESOURCES; FACTUAL INFORMATION; MESSAGE BOARDS; RESEARCH STUDIES; SEMANTIC CLASS; SENTENCE CLASSIFIERS; SPEECH ACTS; SYNTACTIC FEATURES; TEXT GENRE; WORD LISTS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053256413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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