Choosing the content of textual summaries of large time-series data sets

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-49

  Yu, Jin ^a   Reiter, Ehud ^a   Hunter, Jim ^a   Mellish, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GAS TURBINES; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SENSOR DATA FUSION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION (NLG); TEXTUAL SUMMARIES;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 33847255382     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324905004031     Document Type: Article

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