Managing Ambiguity in Reference Generation: The Role of Surface Structure

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 211-231

  Khan, Imtiaz H ^a   Deemter, Kees Van ^b   Ritchie, Graeme ^b  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambiguity management; Generation of referring expressions; Natural language generation; Surface ambiguity in gre; Surface realization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SATISFACTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; READING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84859717442     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2011.01167.x     Document Type: Article

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