Employing the centering theory in pronoun resolution from the semantic perspective

EMNLP 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of ACL, Held in Conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 987-996

  Kong, Fang ^a   Zhou, Guo Dong ^a   Zhu, Qiaoming ^a  

^a SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ANAPHORS; CENTERING THEORIES; DISCRIMINATIVE POWER; PRONOUN RESOLUTION; RELATIVE RANKINGS; SEMANTIC LEVELS; SEMANTIC ROLES; SURFACE POSITIONS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 80053391014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1699571.1699641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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