Trends in Natural Language Generation: An Artificial Intelligence Perspective

Fourth European Workshop, EWNLG '93, Pisa, Italy, April 28-30, 1993 Selected Papers
1996
ISBN: 978-3-540-60800-4
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, Band 1036, 392 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1230 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science

This volume includes revised final versions of the best papers presented at the fourth European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, EWNLG '93, held in Pisa, Italy in April 1993. Out of the 35 papers accepted for presentation at the workshop, 19 were selected for publication in this book.
The papers deal with NLG from different perspectives: linguistics, artificial intelligence, psychology, and engineering. The broad spectrum covered and the outstanding quality of the papers presented are evidence of the remarkable dynamism of the field.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zock, Michael

Adorni, Giovanni

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Natürliche Sprachen & Maschinelle Übersetzung
• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Robotik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Künstliche Intelligenz Wissensbasierte Systeme, Expertensysteme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Architectures for natural language generation: Problems and perspectives.- Choosing a set of coherence relations for text generation: A data-driven approach.- Textual relations as part of multiple links between text segments.- Aggregation in natural language generation.- Towards a representation of the Rhetorical Structure of interrupted exchanges.- Stylistic decision-making in natural language generation.- IDP — An interactive discourse planner.- Reasoning about coherent and cooperative system responses.- Domain-related focus-shifting constraints in dialogues with knowledge based systems.- Integrating text formatting and text generation.- Lexical options in multilingual generation from a knowledge base.- Prétexte: A generator for the expression of temporal information.- Generating grammatical and lexical anaphora in assembly instructional texts.- Incremental grammatical encoding — An outline of the Synphonics Formulator.- A chart-based semantic head driven generation algorithm.- Generating sentences using ProfGlot.- Multilingual textuality: Some experiences from multilingual text generation.- A Dutch component for a multilingual systemic text generation system.- NLG applications to technical documentation A view through IDAS.