Exploiting debate portals for semi-supervised argumentation mining in user-generated web discourse

Conference Proceedings - EMNLP 2015: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 2127-2137

  Habernal, Ivan ^a   Gurevych, Iryna ^a,b  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b German Institute for Educational Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PORTALS; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

COMPONENT IDENTIFICATION; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; CROSS VALIDATION; ERROR PRONES; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING; UNLABELED DATA; USER-GENERATED;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84959898006     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.18653/v1/d15-1255     Document Type: Conference Paper

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