In-depth exploitation of noun and verb semantics to identify causation in verb-noun pairs

SIGDIAL 2014 - 15th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 161-170

  Riaz, Mehwish ^a   Girju, Roxana ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS);

DATA DRIVEN; DISCOURSE UNDERSTANDING; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; NOUNS AND VERBS; SEMANTIC CLASS; SUPERVISED CLASSIFIERS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84977865367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/w14-4322     Document Type: Conference Paper

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