Controlling user perceptions of linguistic style: Trainable generation of personality traits

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 455-488

  Mairesse, François ^a   Walker, Marilyn A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; DATA-DRIVEN METHODS; GENERATION SYSTEMS; LANGUAGE GENERATORS; MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION MODELS; PERSONALITY TRAITS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 80052204608     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/COLI_a_00063     Document Type: Article

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