Unsupervised event coreference resolution with rich linguistic features

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2010-July, Issue , 2010, Pages 1412-1422

  Bejan, Cosmin Adrian ^a   Harabagiu, Sanda ^b  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

CLUSTERINGS; COREFERENCE; COREFERENCE RESOLUTION; CROSS DOCUMENTS; INFINITE NUMBERS; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; NON-PARAMETRIC BAYESIAN MODELING;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EID: 85118431488     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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