Integrating natural language generation and hypertext to produce dynamic documents

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 109-135

  Dale, Robert ^a   Oberlander, Jon ^b   Milosavljevic, Maria ^c   Knott, Alistair ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive hypertext; Discourse coherence; Hypermedia; Information presentation; Natural language generation

Indexed keywords

DISCOURSE COHERENCE; INFORMATION PRESENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032277538     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0953-5438(98)00020-4     Document Type: Article

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