Evaluating automatic extraction of rules for sentence plan construction

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 290-297

  Stent, Amanda ^a   Molina, Martin ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; CONSTRUCTION RULES; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; RUNTIMES; WEIGHTED RULES;

EID: 78049530586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1708376.1708417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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