Evaluating algorithms for the generation of referring expressions using a balanced corpus

Proceedings of the 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, ENLG 07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 49-56

  Gatt, Albert ^a   Van Der Sluis, Ielka ^a   Van Deemter, Kees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

CLASSIC ALGORITHM; CORPUS-BASED; EVALUATING ALGORITHMS; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; INCREMENTAL ALGORITHM; INTENSIVE RESEARCH; REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; SEMANTIC TRANSPARENCIES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84858975162     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1610163.1610172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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