Definition Extraction using Linguistic and Structural Features

International Workshop on Definition Extraction, held in conjunction with the International Conference RANLP 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 61-67

  Westerhout, Eline ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

definition extraction; grammar; linguistic features; machine learning; text structure

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; LINGUISTICS;

DEFINITION EXTRACTIONS; EXTRACTION PROCESS; GRAMMAR; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; MACHINE-LEARNING; N-GRAMS; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; TEXT STRUCTURE;

MACHINE LEARNING;

EID: 84859947087     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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