Machine comprehension with discourse relations

ACL-IJCNLP 2015 - 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages 1253-1262

  Narasimhan, Karthik ^a   Barzilay, Regina ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SYNTACTICS;

DISCOURSE PARSERS; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; HIDDEN VARIABLE; STATE OF THE ART;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84943741228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/p15-1121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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