Automatic analysis of semantic similarity in comparable text through syntactic tree matching

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 752-760

  Marsi, Erwin ^a   Krahmer, Emiel ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM; PAIRWISE CLASSIFICATION; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SYNTACTIC TREES; TREEBANKS;

ALIGNMENT; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; PLANT EXTRACTS; SYNTACTICS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 80053413346     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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