Learning to simplify sentences with quasi-synchronous grammar and integer programming

EMNLP 2011 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 409-420

  Woodsend, Kristian ^a   Lapata, Mirella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA-DRIVEN MODEL; HANDCRAFTED RULES; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODELS; QUASI-SYNCHRONOUS; WIKIPEDIA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 80053286098     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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