Empirically-based control of natural language generation

ACL-05 - 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 58-65

  Paiva, Daniel S ^a   Evans, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

GENERATOR CONTROLS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION SYSTEMS; NEW APPROACHES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84859914449     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1219840.1219848     Document Type: Conference Paper

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