Automatic sense prediction for implicit discourse relations in text

ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Joint Conf. of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 4th Int. Joint Conf. on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP, Proceedings of the Conf.

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 683-691

  Pitler, Emily ^a   Louis, Annie ^a   Nenkova, Ani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

CONTEXT FEATURES; DATA INTENSIVE; LEXICAL FEATURES; NATURALLY OCCURRING; TEST SETS; UNANNOTATED TEXTS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

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