Choosing a set of coherence relations for text generation: A data-driven approach

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1036, Issue , 1996, Pages 47-67

  Knott, Alistair ^a   Dale, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAXONOMIES; TEXT PROCESSING;

DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; GENERATION SYSTEMS; INDIVIDUAL FEATURES; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; RESEARCH PROGRAMMES; SYSTEMATIC METHODOLOGY; TEXT COHERENCES; TEXT GENERATIONS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84876149199     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-60800-1_23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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