A high-precision approach to detecting hedges and their scopes

CoNLL-2010: Shared Task - Fourteenth Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Shared Task

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 70-77

  Kilicoglu, Halil ^a   Bergler, Sabine ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL TEXT; DEPENDENCY RELATION; HIGH-PRECISION; PARSE TREES; SYNTACTIC PATTERNS; WEIGHTING SCHEME; WIKIPEDIA;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; FENCES; SYNTACTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84859017426     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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