Speculation and Negation: Rules, Rankers, and the Role of Syntax

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 369-410

  Velldal, Erik ^a   Øvrelid, Lilja ^a   Read, Jonathon ^a   Oepen, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DEPENDENCY STRUCTURES; INITIAL DESIGN; LINGUISTIC PROPERTIES; LOCAL LEXICAL CONTEXTS; RANKING FUNCTIONS; STATE OF THE ART; SYNTACTIC APPROACH;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84862881587     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/COLI_a_00126     Document Type: Article

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