An augmented template-based approach to text realization

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 381-420

  Mcroy, Susan W ^a   Channarukul, Songsak ^a   Ali, Syed S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SYNTACTICS; TEXT PROCESSING; XML;

AUGMENTED TEMPLATE BASED APPROACH; DIALOG SYSTEM; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; TEXT REALIZATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0344576498     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324903003188     Document Type: Article

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