Identifying argumentative discourse structures in persuasive essays

EMNLP 2014 - 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 46-56

  Stab, Christian ^a   Gurevych, Iryna ^a,b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b German Institute for Educational Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CONTEXTUAL FEATURE; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; F1 SCORES; FEATURE SETS; MULTI-CLASS CLASSIFICATION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84926030513     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/d14-1006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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