A formal model for information selection in multi-sentence text extraction

COLING 2004 - Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Filatova, Elena ^a   Hatzivassiloglou, Vasileios ^b  

^a Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS; FORMAL MODELING; HARD TASK; INFORMATION SELECTION; OPTIMIZATION TASK; PERFORMANCE; QUESTION ANSWERING; TEXT EXTRACTION; TWO DIMENSIONAL SPACES; TWO-DIMENSIONS;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

EID: 85119101677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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