Modeling local coherence: An entity-based approach

ACL-05 - 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 141-148

  Barzilay, Regina ^a   Lapata, Mirella ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ASSESSMENT; COHERENCE MODELS; DISCOURSE REPRESENTATION; EFFECTIVE LEARNING; LEARNING PROBLEM; RANKING FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84859909387     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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