The use of spatial relations in referring expression generation

INLG 2008 - 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 59-67

  Viethen, Jette ^a   Dale, Robert ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE LOADS; REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; SPATIAL RELATIONS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84858111888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1708322.1708334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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