A global model for concept-to-text generation

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Volumn 48, Issue , 2013, Pages 305-346

  Konstas, Ioannis ^a   Lapata, Mirella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS;

DATABASE RECORDS; DOMAIN INDEPENDENTS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FEATURE ENGINEERINGS; GENERATION PROCESS; PROBABILISTIC CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM; TEXT GENERATIONS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 84888310607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10769757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1613/jair.4025     Document Type: Article

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