Interpreting and generating indirect answers

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 389-435

  Green, Nancy ^a,b   Carberry, Sandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b Department of Mathematical Sciences ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; PLAN-BASED THEORY;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 0039106010     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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