Evaluating algorithms for the generation of referring expressions: Going beyond toy domains

International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP

Volumn 2007-January, Issue , 2007, Pages 541-547

  Van Der Sluis, Ielka ^a   Gatt, Albert ^a   Van Deemter, Kees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus based evaluation of algorithms; Generation of referring expressions; Natural language generation

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CLASSIC ALGORITHM; CORPUS-BASED; CORPUS-BASED EVALUATION OF ALGORITHM; EVALUATING ALGORITHMS; EVALUATION METHODOLOGIES; GENERATION OF REFERRING EXPRESSION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; PREFERENCE ORDER; REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; SIMPLE++;

TOYS;

EID: 84959044584     PISSN: 13138502     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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