An unsupervised approach to recognizing discourse relations

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2002-July, Issue , 2002, Pages 368-375

  Marcu, Daniel ^a   Echihabi, Abdessamad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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CONDITION; CUE PHRASE; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES;

EID: 85138378706     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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