Modelling Space and Time in Narratives about Restaurants
Literary and Linguistic ComputingPublished 4 April 2006
Erik T. Mueller
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This study investigated the automatic modelling of space and time in narratives involving dining in a restaurant by building a program that uses information extraction techniques to convert narrative texts into templates containing key information about the dining episodes discussed in the narratives.
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Journal Article Modelling Space and Time in Narratives about Restaurants Get access Erik T. Mueller Erik T. Mueller IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, PO Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Literary and Linguistic Computing, Volume 22, Issue 1, April 2007, Pages 67–84, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fql014 Published: 04 April 2006
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