Identifying Targets for Syntactic Simplification

Speech and Language Technology in Education, SLaTE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 69-72

  Medero, Julie ^a   Ostendorf, Mari ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

parse complexity; text simplification

Indexed keywords

PARSE COMPLEXITY; SPLITTINGS; STANDARD PROBLEMS; TEXT SIMPLIFICATION;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 85133193372     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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