To what extent does sentence-internal realisation reflect discourse context? A study on word order

EACL 2012 - 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 767-776

  Zarrieß, Sina ^a   Kuhn, Jonas ^a   Cahill, Aoife ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

BASELINE MODELS; DISCOURSE CONTEXT; EXTERNAL FEATURES; FEATURE SETS; LEXICAL CHAIN; RANKING MODEL; SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84905714389     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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