Toward a better understanding of causality between verbal events: Extraction and analysis of the causal power of verb-verb associations

SIGDIAL 2013 - 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 21-30

  Riaz, Mehwish ^a   Girju, Roxana ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

CAUSAL RELATIONS; HUMAN-LEVEL PERFORMANCE; KNOWLEDGE BASE; NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; PREDICTIVE POWER; STATE OF THE ART; SUB-PROBLEMS; THREE CATEGORIES;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84987924224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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