Document structure

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 211-260

  Power, Richard ^a   Bouayad Agha, Nadjet ^b   Scott, Donia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; DOCUMENT STRUCTURE; INTERMEDIATE REPRESENTATIONS; LANGUAGE GENERATION; LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; SUBTASKS; WRITTEN TEXTS;

ABSTRACTING;

EID: 0041877367     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089120103322145315     Document Type: Article

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