Don't 'have a clue'? Unsupervised co-learning of downward-entailing operators

ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 247-252

  Danescu Niculescu Mizil, Cristian ^a   Lee, Lillian ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CO-LEARNING; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH-PRECISION; LEARNING ENGLISH; LEXICAL ITEMS; NEGATIVE POLARITY; ROMANIANS; TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84856477587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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