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Using aggregation for selecting content when generating referring expressions

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ACL '99: Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics

Pages 127 - 134

https://doi.org/10.3115/1034678.1034706

Published: 20 June 1999 Publication History

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Previous algorithms for the generation of referring expressions have been developed specifically for this purpose. Here we introduce an alternative approach based on a fully generic aggregation method also motivated for other generation tasks. We argue that the alternative contributes to a more integrated and uniform approach to content determination in the context of complete noun phrase generation.

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