Multilingual natural language generation for multilingual software: a functional linguistic approach

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 607-639

  Bateman, John A ^a   Matthiessen Licheng, Christian M I M ^b   Zeng, Licheng ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

MULTILINGUAL SOFTWARE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 0032649026     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: 10876545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/088395199117289     Document Type: Article

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