The construction of a pun generator for language skills development

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 841-869

  Manurung, Ruli ^a,d   Ritchie, Graeme ^b   Pain, Helen ^a   Waller, Annalu ^c   O'Mara, Dave ^c   Black, Rolf ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; LINGUISTICS; SOFTWARE TESTING;

COMPLEX COMMUNICATION NEEDS; LARGE-SCALES; LINGUISTIC DATA; POTENTIAL USERS; PUBLIC DOMAINS; SIMPLE++; SKILLS DEVELOPMENT; SMALL SCALE; USER FRIENDLY;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 54049115583     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: 10876545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08839510802295962     Document Type: Article

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