Natural Language Generation

New Results in Artificial Intelligence, Psychology and Linguistics
1987
ISBN: 978-90-247-3558-7
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 135, 466 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1880 g

Reihe: NATO Science Series E:

Authors and Participants xi I Pragmatic Aspects 1 1. Some pragmatic decision criteria in generation 3 EduardH. Hovy 2. How to appear to be conforming to the 'maxims' even if you prefer to violate them 19 Antlwny Jameson 43 3. Contextual effects on responses to misconceptions Kathleen F. McCoy 4. Generating understandable explanatory sentences 55 Domenico Parisi & Donatella Ferrante 5. Toward a plan-based theory of referring actions 63 Douglas E. Appelt Generating referring expressions and pointing gestures 71 6. Norben Reithinger II Generation of Connected Discourse 83 7. Rhetorical Structure Theory: description and construction of text structures 85 William C. Mann & Sandra A. Tlwmpson 8. Discourse strategies for describing complex physical objects 97 Cecile L. Paris & Kathleen R. McKeown 9. Strategies for generating coherent descriptions of object movements in street scenes 117 Hans-Joachim Novak 133 10. The automated news agency: SEMTEX - a text generator for German Dietmar ROsner 149 11. A connectionist approach to the generation of abstracts KOiti Hasida, Shun Ishizald & Hitoshi Isahara III Generator Design 157 159 12. Factors contributing to efficiency in natural language generation DavidD. McDonald, Marie M. Vaughan & James D. Pustejovsky 183 13. Reviewing as a component of the text generation process Masoud Yazdani A French and English syntactic component for generation 191 14. Laurence Danlos KING: a knowledge-intensive natural language generator 219 15. Paul S. Jacobs vii 231 IV Grammars and Grammatical Formalisms 233 16. The relevance of Tree Adjoining Grammar to generation Aravind K.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kempen, G. A.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Natürliche Sprachen & Maschinelle Übersetzung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Robotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I Pragmatic Aspects.- 1. Some pragmatic decision criteria in generation.- 2. How to appear to be conforming to the ‘maxims’ even if you prefer to violate them.- 3. Contextual effects on responses to misconceptions.- 4. Generating understandable explanatory sentences.- 5. Toward a plan-based theory of referring actions.- 6. Generating referring expressions and pointing gestures.- II Generation of Connected Discourse.- 7. Rhetorical Structure Theory: description and construction of text structures.- 8. Discourse strategies for describing complex physical objects.- 9. Strategies for generating coherent descriptions of object movements in street scenes.- 10. The automated news agency: SEMTEX — a text generator for German.- 11. A connectionist approach to the generation of abstracts.- III Generator Design.- 12. Factors contributing to efficiency in natural language generation.- 13. Reviewing as a component of the text generation process.- 14. A French and English syntactic component for generation.- 15. KING: a knowledge-intensive natural language generator.- IV Grammars and Grammatical Formalisms.- 16. The relevance of Tree Adjoining Grammar to generation.- 17. Notes on the organization of the environment of a text generation grammar.- 18. A formal model of Systemic Grammar.- 19. Generating answers from a linguistically coded knowledge base.- 20. A computer model of Functional Grammar.- 21. Utterance generation from semantic representations augmented with pragmatic information.- V Stages of Human Sentence Production.- 22. Exploring levels of processing in sentence production.- 23. Incremental sentence production, self-correction, and coordination.- 24. A theory of grammatical impairment in aphasia.- VI Aspects of Lexicalization.- 25. Stages of lexical access.- 26.Where do phrases come from: some preliminary experiments in connectionist phrase generation.- 27. The generation of tense.- 28. Perceptual factors and word order in event descriptions.- 29. Metacomments in text generation.- Name Index.