A methodology for automatic identification of nocuous ambiguity

Coling 2010 - 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1218-1226

  Yang, Hui ^a   De Roeck, Anne ^a   Willis, Alistair ^a   Nuseibeh, Bashar ^a,b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

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Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; LINGUISTIC EXPRESSIONS; MACHINE-LEARNING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 80053390628     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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