Ensemble Methods for Automatic Thesaurus Extraction

Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 222-229

  Curran, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; THESAURI;

COMPLEX TASK; ENSEMBLE METHODS; INDIVIDUAL CLASSIFIERS; LARGE CORPORA; NLP SYSTEMS; STATE OF THE ART; THESAURUS EXTRACTION; TRAINING CORPUS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84919486663     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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