SEMILAR: The semantic similarity toolkit

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2013-August, Issue , 2013, Pages 163-168

  Rus, Vasile ^a   Lintean, Mihai ^a   Banjade, Rajendra ^a   Niraula, Nobal ^a   Stefanescu, Dan ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ANNOTATION TOOL; JAVA LIBRARY; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 85098805208     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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