“Was it good? It was provocative” Learning the meaning of scalar adjectives

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2010-July, Issue , 2010, Pages 167-176

  de Marneffe, Marie Catherine ^a   Manning, Christopher D ^a   Potts, Christopher ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

DIALOG ACTS; LEARN+; MECHANICAL TURKS; QUESTION-ANSWER PAIRS; RESPONSE DATA; RESPONSE DISTRIBUTION; WEB DATA; WORKERS';

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 85118439830     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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