Using natural language generation in automatic route description

Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 89-105

  Dale, Robert ^a   Geldof, Sabine ^a   Prost, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Micro planning; Natural language generation; Way finding systems

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; HAPTIC INTERFACES; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LINGUISTICS; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

MICRO-PLANNING; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; WAY-FINDING SYSTEMS; WEB-BASED SERVICES;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 12844275897     PISSN: 1443458X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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