An Empirical Study on the Generation of Anaphora in Chinese

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 169-190

  Yeh, Ching Long ^a   Mellish, Chris ^b  

^a China Airlines   (Taiwan)

^b Dept of Artificial Intelligence ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

ANAPHORS; ANIMACY; CHINESE NATURAL LANGUAGES; COMPUTER GENERATED; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; LINGUISTIC CONSTRAINTS; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0001663150     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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