Structuring knowledge for reference generation: A clustering algorithm

EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 321-328

  Gatt, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT DETERMINATION; ITS APPLICATIONS; REFERENCE GENERATION; REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; STRUCTURING KNOWLEDGE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84893390952     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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