Optimizing referential coherence in text generation

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 401-416

  Kibble, Rodger ^a,c   Power, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CENTERING THEORIES; EVALUATION METRICS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION SYSTEMS; PRONOUN RESOLUTION; REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; RESEARCH TOOLS; TEXT GENERATIONS;

CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION PROBLEMS;

EID: 25844495808     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0891201042544893     Document Type: Review

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