Generating and evaluating evaluative arguments

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 170, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 925-952

  Carenini, Giuseppe ^a   Moore, Johanna D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Empirical evaluation; Natural language generation; Preferences; User tailoring

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; USER INTERFACES;

EMPIRICAL EVALUATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; PREFERENCES; USER TAILORING;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745860357     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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