Text-level discourse parsing with rich linguistic features

50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 60-68

  Feng, Vanessa Wei ^a   Hirst, Graeme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

DISCOURSE PARSERS; DISCOURSE PARSING; LINGUISTIC FEATURES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84867640779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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