Aligning predicates across monolingual comparable texts using graph-based clustering

EMNLP-CoNLL 2012 - 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 171-182

  Roth, Michael ^a   Frank, Anette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT TECHNIQUE; ARGUMENT STRUCTURES; GRAPH-BASED CLUSTERING; LARGE CORPORA; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; PERCENTAGE POINTS; SENTENCE LEVEL; SUBTASK;

ALIGNMENT; GRAPHIC METHODS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84883398588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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