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Tailoring lexical choice to the user's vocabulary in multimedia explanation generation

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Kathleen McKeown,

Michael TanenblattAuthors Info & Claims

ACL '93: Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics

Pages 226 - 234

https://doi.org/10.3115/981574.981605

Published: 22 June 1993 Publication History

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In this paper, we discuss the different strategies used in COMET (COordinated Multimedia Explanation Testbed) for selecting words with which the user is familiar. When pictures cannot be used to disambiguate a word or phrase, COMET has four strategies for avoiding unknown words. We give examples for each of these strategies and show how they are implemented in COMET.

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