Experiments with discourse-level choices and readability

Proceedings of the 9th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation at the 10th Conference of the European Chapter, ENLG@EACL 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 127-134

  Williams, Sandra ^a   Reiter, Ehud ^a   Osman, Liesl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT LEARNERS; CORPUS ANALYSIS; LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION SYSTEMS; PILOT EXPERIMENT; READING LEVEL; READING SKILLS; SYSTEM GENERATOR;

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