Instance-based natural language generation

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 309-346

  Varges, S ^a   Mellish, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNOTATION SCHEME; GRAMMAR INDUCTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; RANKING METHODS; RULE SYSTEMS; SEARCH TECHNIQUE; SURFACE GENERATIONS; TRAINING CORPUS; TREEBANKS; TWO-COMPONENT;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 78650070814     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324910000069     Document Type: Article

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