Natural language generation for nature conservation: Automating feedback to help volunteers identify bumblebee species

24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of COLING 2012: Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 311-324

  Blake, Steven ^a   Siddharthan, Advaith ^a   Nguyen, Hien ^a   Sharma, Nirwan ^a   Robinson, Anne Marie ^a   O'mahony, Elaine ^b   Darvill, Ben ^b   Mellish, Chris ^a   Van Der Wal, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bumblebee conservation; Citizen science; Educational application; Generating feedback; Natural language generation; NLG

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN SCIENCE; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; NLG; SPECIES GROUPS; VISUAL FEATURE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

CONSERVATION;

EID: 84876788100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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