21.1203, Qs: Facebook App: Evaluate a Natural Lang Generation System

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Subject: 21.1203, Qs: Facebook App: Evaluate a Natural Lang Generation System

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Date: 11-Mar-2010
From: Eva Banik < e.banik at open.ac.uk >
Subject: Facebook App: Evaluate a Natural Lang Generation System
 

	
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:43:22
From: Eva Banik [e.banik at open.ac.uk]
Subject: Facebook App: Evaluate a Natural Lang Generation System

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I am looking for participants to fill out a short survey on Facebook to 
evaluate a natural language generation (NLG) system. The system 
produces paragraph-length texts and returns many paraphrases for a 
given input. The survey compares quality judgments for the generated 
texts, asking participants to judge the quality of three short paragraphs.

The URL for the Facebook application is:
 
http://apps.facebook.com/jojosblog

I would be very grateful if you could forward this link to your friends. 
Anybody is welcome to fill out the survey.

Thank you for your help, and please get in touch if you have any 
trouble running the application.

Eva Banik
e.banik at open.ac.uk 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis




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