Combining EM training and the MDL principle for an automatic verb classification incorporating selectional preferences

ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 496-504

  Walde, Sabine Schulte Im ^a   Hying, Christian ^a   Scheible, Christian ^a   Schmid, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLASS MODELS; EM ALGORITHMS; EM TRAINING; MDL PRINCIPLE; SELECTIONAL PREFERENCES; SEMANTIC CLASS; TWO-DIMENSION;

ALGORITHMS; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84859909840     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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