Aggregation in natural language generation

Computational Intelligence

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 384-414

  Dalianis, Hercules ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Natural language generation; Sentence planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040573185     PISSN: 08247935     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0824-7935.00099     Document Type: Article

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