Natural language generation of biomedical argumentation for lay audiences

Argument and Computation

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-50

  Green, Nancy ^a   Dwight, Rachael ^b   Navoraphan, Kanyamas ^b   Stadler, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

biomedical argumentation; causal argumentation schemes; computational models of natural argument; natural language generation

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT ARGUMENTATION; ARGUMENTATION SCHEMES; BIOMEDICAL ARGUMENTATION; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; DOMAIN EXPERTS; DOMAIN MODEL; FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS; INFORMATION EXPRESSION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; NORMATIVE ARGUMENTS; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE;

ABSTRACTING; TRANSPARENCY;

RATING;

EID: 84857974539     PISSN: 19462166     EISSN: 19462174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19462166.2010.515037     Document Type: Article

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