Inducing document plans for concept-to-text generation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1503-1514

  Konstas, Ioannis ^a   Lapata, Mirella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORESTRY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING;

DATABASE RECORDS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; GENERATION SYSTEMS; LANGUAGE GENERATION; RHETORICAL STRUCTURE THEORY; STATE OF THE ART; TEXT GENERATIONS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DATA; EDUCATION; LANGUAGES;

EID: 84926324550     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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