A hearer-oriented evaluation of referring expression generation

Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, ENLG 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 98-101

  Khan, Imtiaz H ^a   Van Deemter, Kees ^a   Ritchie, Graeme ^a   Gatt, Albert ^a   Cleland, Alexandra A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN READERS; REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITY;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84858961596     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1610195.1610210     Document Type: Conference Paper

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