A dataset for the evaluation of lexical simplification

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7182 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2012, Pages 426-437

  De Belder, Jan ^a   Moens, Marie Francine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EVALUATING ALGORITHMS; EXHAUSTIVE LISTS; GROUND TRUTH MODEL; LEARNING DISABILITIES;

ALGORITHMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84858309105     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28601-8_36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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