Towards situated dialogue: Revisiting referring expression generation

EMNLP 2013 - 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 392-402

  Fang, Rui ^a   Liu, Changsong ^a   She, Lanbo ^a   Chai, Joyce Y ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ABSOLUTE GAIN; GRAPH-BASED; GROUP-BASED; HYPERGRAPH; NEW SOLUTIONS; PERFORMANCE GAPS; REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; SPATIAL RELATIONS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 84905683026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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