Solving relational similarity problems using the web as a corpus

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 452-460

  Nakov, Preslav ^a   Hearst, Marti A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSTANCE-BASED CLASSIFIERS; NOUN-MODIFIER PAIRS; NOUN-NOUN COMPOUNDS; RELATIONAL SIMILARITIES; SEMANTIC RELATIONS;

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84859913003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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