Automatic identification of rhetorical questions

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 2, Issue , 2015, Pages 743-749

  Bhattasali, Shohini ^a   Cytryn, Jeremy ^b   Feldman, Elana ^a   Park, Joonsuk ^b  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LINGUISTICS;

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; DIALOGUE ACTS; LANGUAGE MODEL; N-GRAMS; QUESTION IDENTIFICATIONS; SPECIAL TREATMENTS; TEXT SUMMARIZATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84944055014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/p15-2122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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