Generation of referring expressions: Managing structural ambiguities

Coling 2008 - 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 433-440

  Khan, Imtiaz Hussain ^a   Van Deemter, Kees ^a   Ritchie, Graeme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

SEMANTIC LEVELS; STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITY;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 76149102496     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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