Natural language generation and discourse context: Computing distractor sets from the focus stack

Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, FLAIRS 2004

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 887-892

  Devault, David ^a   Rich, Charles ^b   Sidner, Candace L ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCOURSE CONTEXT; DISTRACTOR SETS; FOCUS STACK; HUMAN-COMPUTER CONVERSATION;

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; DECISION MAKING; INTEGRATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 10044267846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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