Information extraction

Handbook of Natural Language Processing, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 511-532

  Hobbs, Jerry R ^a   Riloff, Ellen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

DEEP INFERENCE; IT FOCUS; KEYWORD SEARCH; LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84870968060     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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