Automatic acquisition of lexical formality

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 90-98

  Brooke, Julian ^a   Wang, Tong ^a   Hirst, Graeme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ACQUISITION; LEXICAL ITEMS; MULTIPLE SOURCE; WORD ASSOCIATION; WORD LENGTH;

HYBRID SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80053431452     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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