A reference architecture for natural language generation systems

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-34

  Mellish, Chris ^a   Scott, Donia ^b   Cahill, Lynne ^c   Paiva, Daniel ^c   Evans, Roger ^d   Reape, Mike ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

INFORMATION EXTRACTION; MULTIMEDIA INTERFACES; REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR GENERATION SYSTEMS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33744900853     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324906004104     Document Type: Article

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