Automatic paragraph identification: A study across languages and domains

Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2004 - A meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL held in conjunction with ACL 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 72-79

  Sporleder, Caroline ^a   Lapata, Mirella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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BEST MODEL; DATA SET; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES;

EID: 80053343303     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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