Referring expression generation through attribute-based heuristics

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 58-65

  Dale, Robert ^a   Viethen, Jette ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTRIBUTE-BASED; COMPONENT ELEMENTS; GENERATION PROCESS; REFERRING EXPRESSIONS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77949307919     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1610195.1610204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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