A statistical NLG framework for aggregated planning and realization

ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 1406-1415

  Kondadadi, Ravi ^a,b   Howald, Blake ^a   Schilder, Frank ^a  

^a THOMSON REUTERS   (United Kingdom)

^b NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; CLUSTER ASSIGNMENT; DISCOURSE REPRESENTATION; K-MEANS CLUSTERING; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION SYSTEMS; SEMI-AUTOMATIC PROCESSING; STATISTICAL APPROACH; STATISTICAL LEARNING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84907359331     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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