Review: Computer language games

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2063, Issue , 2001, Pages 396-404

  Littman, Michael L ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Boggle; Crosswords; Cryptics; Hangman; Puns; Trivial pursuit; Word games; Word meanings

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

BOGGLE; CROSSWORDS; CRYPTICS; HANGMAN; PUNS; TRIVIAL PURSUIT; WORD GAMES; WORD MEANING;

COMPUTER GAMES;

EID: 0007900439     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45579-5_26     Document Type: Conference Paper

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