What do we know about conversation participants: Experiments on conversation entailment

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 206-215

  Zhang, Chen ^a   Chai, Joyce Y ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

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