Implementation architectures for natural language generation

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 261-282

  Mellish, Chris ^a   Evans, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA STRUCTURES; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; XML;

NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 8344219758     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324904003511     Document Type: Article

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