"I thou thee, thou traitor": Predicting formal vs. informal address in English literature

ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 467-472

  Faruqui, Manaal ^a   Padó, Sebastian ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGLISH LITERATURE; HUMAN LEVELS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84859073502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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