An empirical approach to the interpretation of superlatives

COLING/ACL 2006 - EMNLP 2006: 2006 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 9-17

  Bos, Johan ^a   Nissim, Malvina ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

AUTOMATED APPROACH; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; SEMANTIC INTERPRETATION; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053353518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1610075.1610078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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