Learning noun phrase anaphoricity to improve coreference resolution: Issues in representation and optimization

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 151-158

  Ng, Vincent ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science and School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COREFERENCE; COREFERENCE RESOLUTION; CORPUS-BASED APPROACHES; DATA SET; KEY ISSUES; NOUN PHRASE; OPTIMISATIONS; PERFORMANCE;

EID: 85149108413     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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