Discourse structure and computation: Past, present and future

Proceedings of the ACL-2012 Special Workshop on Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries, Discoveries 2012 at the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 42-54

  Webber, Bonnie ^a   Joshi, Aravind ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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'CURRENT; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY; PROPERTY;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84905274527     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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