Algorithms for generating referring expressions: Do they do what people do?

COLING/ACL 2006: INLG-06 - 4th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 63-70

  Viethen, Jette ^a   Dale, Robert ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; GENERATING REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84858137925     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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