Natural language generation with tree conditional random fields

EMNLP 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of ACL, Held in Conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 400-409

  Lu, Wei ^a   Ng, Hwee Tou ^a   Lee, Wee Sun ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

AUTOMATIC EVALUATION; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; HYBRID TREES; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; NATURAL LANGUAGES; STATE OF THE ART; TREE STRUCTURES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80053274247     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1699510.1699563     Document Type: Conference Paper

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