Multilingual resource sharing across both related and unrelated languages: An implemented, open-source framework for practical natural language generation

Research on Language and Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 191-219

  Bateman, John A ^a   Kruijff Korbayová, Ivana ^b   Kruijff, Geert Jan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

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EID: 28844445217     PISSN: 15707075     EISSN: 15728706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11168-005-1298-9     Document Type: Article

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