The effects of discourse connectives prediction on implicit discourse relation recognition

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference: 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group onDiscourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 139-146

  Zhout, Zhi Min ^a   Man, Lant ^a,c   Niu, Zheng Yu ^b   Yu, Xut ^a   Su, Jian ^c  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BAIDU INC   (China)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE MODEL; STATE-OF-ART METHODS; F-SCORE; MODEL-BASED OPC;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORECASTING; CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; FORECASTING;

EID: 81255143941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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