Entity-based local coherence modelling using topological fields

ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 186-195

  Cheung, Jackie Chi Kit ^a   Penn, Gerald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRID MODEL; MANUAL ANNOTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION SYSTEMS; SENTENCE ORDERING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

TOPOLOGY;

EID: 84860013975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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