Text simplification using typed dependencies: A comparison of the robustness of different generation strategies

ENLG 2011 - 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2-11

  Siddharthan, Advaith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPENDENCY GRAPHS; STANFORD; TRANSFORMATION RULES; WORD ORDERS;

ERRORS;

CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS;

EID: 84860003047     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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