Self-assessing agents for explaining language change: A case study in German

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 242, Issue , 2012, Pages 798-803

  Van Trijp, Remi ^a  

^a SONY COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

AGENT BASED; ASSESSMENT CRITERIA; CASE-STUDIES; GERMAN LANGUAGE; HUMAN COGNITION; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PERFORMANCE; RESEARCH METHOD; SELF-ASSESSMENT;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 84878793231     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-098-7-798     Document Type: Conference Paper

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