Generating referring expressions that involve gradable properties

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 195-222

  Van Deemter, Kees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

CONTEXT DEPENDENT; GENERATING REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; NUMERICAL DATA; REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; SEMANTIC ANALYSIS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745867610     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli.2006.32.2.195     Document Type: Article

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