NUS at the HOO 2012 Shared Task

Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2012 at the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 216-224

  Dahlmeier, Daniel ^a   Ng, Hwee Tou ^a,b   Ng, Eric Jun Feng ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD STANDARDS; LINEAR CLASSIFIERS; NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE; PARTICIPATING TEAMS; SYSTEM USE; TEST SETS;

EID: 85123678185     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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