Evaluation metrics for generation

INLG 2000 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Natural Language Generation

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 1-8

  Bangalore, Srinivas ^a   Rambow, Owen ^a   Whittaker, Steve ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EVALUATION METRICS; EXPERIMENT CONFIRM; HUMAN EVALUATION; HUMAN JUDGMENTS; INTRINSIC SYSTEMS; QUALITATIVE ASPECTS; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; QUANTITATIVE METRIC; STOCHASTIC METHODS; TEST CORRELATION;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84866145701     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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