An empirical analysis of constructing non-restrictive NP modifiers to express semantic relations

INLG 2000 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Natural Language Generation

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 108-115

  Cheng, Hua ^a   Mellish, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCEPTANCE TESTS; SEMANTICS;

CORPUS ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENT TESTS; SEMANTIC RELATIONS; WALL STREET JOURNAL; WRITTEN TEXTS;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0345275486     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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