Lexical choice and conceptual perspective in the generation of plural referring expressions

Journal of Logic, Language and Information

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 423-443

  Gatt, Albert ^a   Van Deemter, Kees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conceptual coherence; Generation of referring expressions; Natural language generation; Plurals; Semantic similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 35448985385     PISSN: 09258531     EISSN: 15729583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10849-007-9047-0     Document Type: Article

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