Statistical generation: Three methods compared and evaluated

Proceedings of the 10th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, ENLG-05

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 15-23

  Belz, Anja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

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ALTERNATIVE METHODS; AUTOMATIC ADAPTATION; LOWER COST; N-GRAM MODELS; RANDOM SELECTION; SELECTION MECHANISM; STATISTICAL MODELS;

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EID: 79959852066     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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