Automatic Prediction of Evidence-based Recommendations via Sentence-level Polarity Classification

6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 712-718

  Sarker, Abeed ^a   Mollá Aliod, Diego ^a   Paris, Cécile ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

'CURRENT; AUTOMATIC PREDICTION; CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; CONTEXT-SENSITIVE; EVIDENCE-BASED; POLARITY CLASSIFICATION; SENTENCE LEVEL; STATE OF THE ART; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 84924318814     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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