Analysis of syntactic and semantic features for fine-grained event-spatial understanding in outbreak news reports

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Chanlekha, Hutchatai ^a   Collier, Nigel ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

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EID: 84866844288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-1480-1-3     Document Type: Article

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