The treatment of adjectives in SIMPLE: Theoretical observations

2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Peters, Ivonne ^a   Peters, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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