Data-driven response generation in social media

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 583-593

  Ritter, Alan ^a   Cherry, Colin ^b   Dolan, William B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA-DRIVEN; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; HUMAN EVALUATION; HUMAN RESPONSE; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; RESPONSE GENERATION; SOCIAL MEDIA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 80053292690     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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