Evolutionary Algorithms for Definition Extraction

International Workshop on Definition Extraction, held in conjunction with the International Conference RANLP 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 26-32

  Borg, Claudia ^a   Rosner, Mike ^a   Pace, Gordon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

Author keywords

Definition Extraction; Genetic Algorithms; Genetic Programming

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; SEMANTICS;

DEFINITION EXTRACTIONS; GENETIC PROGRAMS; HUMAN EXPERT; IMPLICIT INFORMATIONS; LEARN+; LEARNING MATERIALS; MACHINE-LEARNING; MAIN TEXTS; SEMANTIC ANALYSIS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84863936736     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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