An information structural approach to spoken language generation

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1996-June, Issue , 1996, Pages 294-301

  Prevost, Scott ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INFORMATION STRUCTURES; LANGUAGE GENERATION; PLANNING STAGES; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; STRUCTURAL APPROACH;

EID: 33645807100     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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