Interpretation of Compound Nominalisations using Corpus and Web Statistics

COLING ACL 2006 - Multiword Expressions: Identifying and Exploiting Underlying Properties, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 54-61

  Nicholson, Jeremy ^a   Baldwin, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; SEMANTICS;

% REDUCTIONS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA SPARSENESS; DIRECT OBJECTS; GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NOMINALIZATION; SEARCH ENGINE INTERFACES; SEMANTIC RELATIONS; STATISTICAL MEASURES;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

EID: 80053342841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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