The grammar of sense: Using part-of-speech tags as a first step in semantic disambiguation

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 135-143

  Wilks, Yorick ^a   Stevenson, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84931009826     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324998001946     Document Type: Article

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