Statistical estimation of word acquisition with application to readability prediction

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 900-909

  Kidwell, Paul ^a   Lebanon, Guy ^b   Collins Thompson, Kevyn ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; SEMANTICS;

AUTOMATICALLY MATCH; HISTORICAL TRENDS; LANGUAGE LEARNING; READING ABILITIES; SEMANTIC COMPONENTS; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION; WORD ACQUISITION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053424504     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1699571.1699630     Document Type: Conference Paper

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