A context-dependent algorithm for generating locative expressions in physically situated environments

Proceedings of the 10th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, ENLG-05

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 68-74

  Kelleher, John D ^a   Kruijff, Geert Jan M ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

COMBINATORIAL EXPLOSION; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; CONTEXT MODELS; SPATIAL RELATIONS;

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