Cross-linguistic Attribute Selection for REG: Comparing Dutch and English

Mariet Theune, Ruud Koolen, Emiel Krahmer

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    Abstract

    In this paper we describe a cross-linguistic experiment in attribute selection for referring expression generation. We used a graph-based attribute selection algorithm that was trained and cross-evaluated on English and Dutch data. The results indicate that attribute selection can be done in a largely language independent way.
    Original languageUndefined
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2010)
    Place of PublicationDublin
    PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
    Pages191-195
    Number of pages5
    ISBN (Print)1-900-45442-4
    Publication statusPublished - Jul 2010
    Event6th International Natural Language Generation Conference, INLG 2010 - Trim, Ireland
    Duration: 7 Jul 20109 Jul 2010

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    PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics

    Conference

    Conference6th International Natural Language Generation Conference, INLG 2010
    Period7/07/109/07/10
    Other7-9 July 2010

    Keywords

    • METIS-271129
    • EWI-18793
    • IR-74615

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