Attribute selection for referring expression generation: New algorithms and evaluation methods

INLG 2008 - 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 50-58

  Gatt, Albert ^a   Belz, Anja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC PROPERTIES; ATTRIBUTE SELECTION; EVALUATION METHOD;

ALGORITHMS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77956306488     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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