Recognising the Predicate-argument Structure of Tagalog
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This paper describes research on parsing Tagalog text for predicate–argument structure (PAS). We first outline the linguistic phenomenon and corpus annotation process, then detail a series of PAS parsing experiments.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009