An algorithm for generating referential descriptions with flexible interfaces

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1997-July, Issue , 1997, Pages 206-213

  Horacek, Helmut ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

CORE ALGORITHMS; DESCRIPTORS; EXPRESSIBILITY; FLEXIBLE INTERFACES; FLOW OF CONTROL; GOAL-DRIVEN; LINGUISTIC CONSTRAINTS; LINGUISTIC DATA; OBJECT DESCRIPTORS; REFERRING EXPRESSIONS;

EID: 85149146199     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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