Did It Happen? The Pragmatic Complexity of Veridicality Assessment

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 301-333

  de Marneffe, Marie Catherine ^a   Manning, Christopher D ^b   Potts, Christopher ^a  

^a Linguistics Department   (United States)

^b Linguistics Department and Computer Science Department   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AS DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTATIONAL WORK; EVENT EXTRACTION; LEXICAL FEATURES; LEXICAL SEMANTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; WORLD KNOWLEDGE;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84862904033     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/COLI_a_00097     Document Type: Article

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