Evaluating centering for information ordering using corpora

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-46

  Karamanis, Nikiforos ^a   Poesio, Massimo ^c   Mellish, Chris ^b   Oberlander, Jon ^d  

^a William Gates Building ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d School of Informatics   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TEXT GENERATION; CENTERING THEORIES; GENERAL METHODOLOGIES; TEXT GENERATIONS;

EID: 62449110396     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli.07-036-R2-06-22     Document Type: Article

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