Learning to extract international relations from political context

ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 1094-1104

  O'Connor, Brendan ^a   Stewart, Brandon M ^b   Smith, Noah A ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EVENT CLASS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NEWS CORPORA; POLITICAL CONTEXT; POLITICAL SCIENCE; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; TOPIC MODEL;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84906926616     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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