Combining hierarchical clustering and machine learning to predict high-level discourse structure

COLING 2004 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Sporleder, Caroline ^a   Lascarides, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE LEARNING;

CUE PHRASE; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING; LEXICAL CHAIN; NOVEL METHODS; STRUCTURE OF TEXT; WORD CO-OCCURRENCE;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84860519733     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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