Annotation of information structure: An evaluation across different types of texts

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2137-2142

  Ritz, Julia ^a   Dipper, Stefanie ^b   Götze, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATION SCHEME; HETEROGENEOUS DATA; INFORMATION STRUCTURES; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; LINGUISTIC INFORMATION; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; WRITTEN TEXTS;

EID: 85020207577     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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