Coup de grâce Coup de grâce A coup de grâce (; French for "blow of mercy") is a death blow to end the suffering of a severely wounded person or animal. It may be a mercy killing of civilians or soldiers, friends or enemies, with or without the sufferer's consent. Examples of "coup de grâce" include shooting the heart or head (typically the back of the skull) of a wounded, but still living, person during an execution or by humanely killing a suffering, mortally wounded soldier, in war, for whom medical aid is not available. In pre-firearms eras the wounded were finished with
Referring expression generation In REG they are used to evaluate the "realization" part of algorithms. The "content selection" part of REG on the other hand requires a corpus that contains the properties of all domain objects as well as the properties used in references. Typically those fully "semantically transparent" created in experiments using simple and controlled settings. These experimental corpora once again can be separated into "General-Purpose Corpora" that were collected for another purpose but have been analysed for referring expressions and "Dedicated Corpora" that focus specifically on referring expressions. Examples of General-Purpose Corpora are the Pear Stories, the Map Task corpus or