Towards a Probabilistic Model for Lexical Entailment

TextInfer 2011 - Workshop on Textual Entailment at the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2011 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 10-19

  Shnarch, Eyal ^a   Goldberger, Jacob ^a   Dagan, Ido ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

LEXICAL LEVEL; MODELING COMPONENT; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; PROBABILISTICS APPROACH; RELIABILITY LEVEL; TEXTUAL ENTAILMENT;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 84992516028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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