Semi-supervised semantic role labeling via structural alignment

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 135-171

  Fürstenau, Hagen ^a   Lapata, Mirella ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPH STRUCTURES; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING; SYNTACTICS;

ALIGNMENT PROBLEMS; AUTOMATIC ANNOTATION; CLASSIFIER TRAINING; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; SEMANTIC ROLE LABELING; STRUCTURAL ALIGNMENTS; SYNTACTIC STRUCTURE;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84856197089     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/COLI_a_00087     Document Type: Article

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