Software testing and the naturally occurring data assumption in natural language processing

ACL-08: HLT - Software Engineering, Testing, and Quality Assurance for Natural Language Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 23-30

  Cohen, K Bretonnel ^a,b   Baumgartner, William A ^b   Hunter, Lawrence ^b  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BRANCH-COVERAGE; CODE COVERAGE; DATA ASSUMPTION; FUNCTIONAL TEST; HIGH CLASS; LARGE CORPORA; MINING SYSTEMS; NATURALLY OCCURRING; SOFTWARE TESTINGS; TEXT-MINING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 84890555238     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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