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From Language to Motion, and Back: Generating and Using Route Descriptions

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Route descriptions are natural language productions in response to the question: How do I get from A to B?

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Ligozat, G. (2000). From Language to Motion, and Back: Generating and Using Route Descriptions. In: Christodoulakis, D.N. (eds) Natural Language Processing — NLP 2000. NLP 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1835. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45154-4_31

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