Exploring the Vector Space Model for finding verb synonyms in Portuguese

International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 393-398

  Sarmento, Luís ^a   Carvalho, Paula ^b   Oliveira, Eugénio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Language resources; Relation extraction; Semantics; Statistical methods; Vector Space Model

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; VECTORS;

AUTOMATIC EVALUATION; EVALUATION; LANGUAGE RESOURCES; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; LOW FREQUENCY FEATURES; OPERATING PARAMETERS; RELATION EXTRACTION; VECTOR SPACE MODELS;

VECTOR SPACES;

EID: 84866178205     PISSN: 13138502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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