A new, fully automatic version of Mitkov’s knowledge-poor pronoun resolution method

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2276, Issue , 2002, Pages 168-186

  Mitkov, Ruslan ^a   Evans, Richard ^a   Orasan, Constantin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LINGUISTICS; TEXT PROCESSING;

ANAPHORA RESOLUTION; ANIMACY; AUTOMATIC MODE; KNOWLEDGE-POOR; OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE; PRONOUN RESOLUTION;

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS;

EID: 84957694273     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45715-1_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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