Processing natural language arguments with theplatform

Argument and Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-82

  Saint Dizier, Patrick ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

discourse processing; logic programming; natural language processing of arguments

Indexed keywords

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; DISCOURSE PROCESSING; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; RHETORICAL STRUCTURE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84859190141     PISSN: 19462166     EISSN: 19462174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19462166.2012.663539     Document Type: Article

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