Predicting thread discourse structure over technical web forums

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 13-25

  Wang, Li ^a,b   Lui, Marco ^a,b   Kim, Su Nam ^a,b   Nivre, Joakim ^c   Baldwin, Timothy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX STRUCTURE; DEPENDENCY PARSING; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; IN-SITU; INFORMATION ACCESS; LABELLED DEPENDENCIES; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; SPECIFIC INFORMATION; WEB FORUMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; USER INTERFACES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053286100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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