Building applied natural language generation systems

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 57-87

  Reiter, Ehud ^a   Dale, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 84956732014     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324997001502     Document Type: Article

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