A probabilistic lexical model for ranking textual inferences

*SEM 2012 - 1st Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 237-245

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

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DATA SET; LEXICAL INFORMATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE APPLICATIONS; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; QUESTION ANSWERING;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 85041196827     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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