Complex lexico-syntactic reformulation of sentences using typed dependency representations

INLG 2010 - Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 125-133

  Siddharthan, Advaith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

DEPENDENCY STRUCTURES; DISCOURSE MARKERS; TRANSFER RULES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84857876355     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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