Generation by inverting a semantic parser that uses statistical machine translation

NAACL HLT 2007 - Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 172-179

  Wong, Yuk Wah ^a   Mooney, Raymond J ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN EVALUATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; NATURAL LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TWO DOMAINS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION THEORY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

EID: 57749114103     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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