ISP: Learning inferential selectional preferences

NAACL HLT 2007 - Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 564-571

  Pantel, Patrick ^a   Bhagat, Rahul ^a   Coppola, Bonaventura ^b   Chklovski, Timothy ^a   Hovy, Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; INFERENCE RULES; NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; QUESTION ANSWERING; SELECTIONAL PREFERENCES; SEMANTIC INFERENCE; TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84858383754     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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