Generating referring expressions: Making referents easy to identify

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 230-254

  Paraboni, Ivandré ^a,c   Van Deemter, Kees ^b,d   Masthoff, Judith ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c Meston Building ^*  (Brazil)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; GENERATING REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; GENERATION ALGORITHM; HUMAN SUBJECTS; REFERRING EXPRESSIONS;

EID: 34347334453     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli.2007.33.2.229     Document Type: Article

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