Towards a model of formal and informal address in English

EACL 2012 - 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 623-633

  Faruqui, Manaal ^a   Padó, Sebastian ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

BILINGUAL CORPORA; HUMAN ANNOTATIONS; LEXICAL FEATURES; LITERARY TEXTS; SENTENCE LEVEL; SUPERVISED CLASSIFIERS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84958268704     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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