Learning to detect conversation focus of threaded discussions

HLT-NAACL 2006 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 208-215

  Feng, Donghui ^a   Shaw, Erin ^a   Kim, Jihie ^a   Hovy, Eduard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; GRAPHIC METHODS;

BASELINE SYSTEMS; GRAPH-BASED ALGORITHMS; HETEROGENEOUS SOURCES; LEXICAL SIMILARITY; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SPEECH ACT ANALYSIS; THREADED DISCUSSIONS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 84863379201     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220835.1220862     Document Type: Conference Paper

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