Coherence in Child Language Narratives: A Case Study of Annotation and Automatic Prediction of Coherence

3rd Workshop on Child, Computer and Interaction, WOCCI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 7-12

  Hassanali, Khairun Nisa ^a   Liu, Yang ^a   Solorio, Thamar ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

child language; coherence; machine learning; narrative; Natural language processing

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC PREDICTION; CASE-STUDIES; CHILD LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; MACHINE-LEARNING; NARRATIVE; NARRATIVE STRUCTURES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGES;

MACHINE LEARNING;

EID: 85133389607     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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