The Order of Prenominal Adjectives in Natural Language Generation
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The order of prenominal adjectival modifiers in English is governed by complex and difficult to describe constraints which straddle the boundary between competence and performance. This paper describes and compares a number of statistical and machine learning techniques for ordering sequences of adjectives in the context of a natural language generation system.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000