System building cost vs. output quality in data-to-text generation

Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, ENLG 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 16-24

  Belz, Anja ^a   Kow, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REUSABILITY;

AUTOMATIC EVALUATION; AUTOMATIC METRICS; AUTOMATIC TECHNIQUE; EXISTING SYSTEMS; GENERATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED; MANUAL TECHNIQUES; TEXT GENERATIONS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 70349135708     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1610195.1610198     Document Type: Conference Paper

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