Modeling Latent Biographic Attributes in Conversational Genres

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Joint Conf. of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 4th Int. Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, Proceedings of the Conf.

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 710-718

  Garera, Nikesh ^a   Yarowsky, David ^a  

^a Whiting School of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

ARABIC-ENGLISH; ERROR REDUCTION; GENDER DETECTION; NATIVE LANGUAGE; PASSIVE/ACTIVE; SPEAKING RATE; SWITCHBOARD CORPUS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84866565520     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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