LEDIR: An unsupervised algorithm for learning directionality of inference rules

EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 161-170

  Bhagat, Rahul ^a   Pantel, Patrick ^a   Hovy, Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CORE COMPONENTS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; INFERENCE RULES; NATURAL LANGUAGE APPLICATIONS; SELECTIONAL PREFERENCES; SEMANTIC INFERENCE; UNSUPERVISED ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

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EID: 80053349675     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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