Trainable approaches to surface natural language generation and their application to conversational dialog systems

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 435-455

  Ratnaparkhi, Adwait ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ENTROPY; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PROBABILITY; SEMANTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036663624     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2308(02)00025-6     Document Type: Article

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