EM works for pronoun anaphora resolution

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 148-156

  Charniak, Eugene ^a   Elsner, Micha ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE;

ANAPHORA RESOLUTION; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84455165769     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1609067.1609083     Document Type: Conference Paper

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