A probabilistic model of referring expressions for complex objects

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 191-194

  Funakoshi, Kotaro ^a   Spanger, Philipp ^b   Nakano, Mikio ^a   Tokunaga, Takenobu ^b  

^a HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE JAPAN CO LTD   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX DOMAINS; COMPLEX OBJECTS; DOMAIN MODEL; PROBABILISTIC FORMULATION; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 78651505835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1610195.1610229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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