Towards constructive text, diagram, and layout generation for information presentation

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 407-449

  Bateman, John ^a   Kleinz, Jörg ^b   Kamps, Thomas ^b   Reichenberger, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b Intelligent Views GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; INFORMATION PRESENTATION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LAYOUT GENERATIONS; PAGE LAYOUTS; TEXT FORMATTING;

EID: 0037956010     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089120101317066131     Document Type: Article

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