Acquiring the meaning of discourse markers

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 684-691

  Hutchinson, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

DISCOURSE MARKERS; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; SUBTASK;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 84912549172     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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