The leeds Arabic discourse treebank: Annotating discourse connectives for Arabic

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2046-2053

  Al Saif, Amal ^a   Markert, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

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ANNOTATION TOOL; AUTOMATED METHODS; CLITICS; HUMAN IDENTIFICATION; IN CONTEXTS; NEWS CORPORA; TRAINING AND TESTING; TREEBANKS;

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