New Concepts in Natural Language Generation
Planning, Realization and Systems
Published on 1. March 1993
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-85567-084-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book aims to inform scholars working in the domain of natural language generation (man-machine interface, automatic translation, text generation) about the most recent advances in the field whether in the domain of grammar theories or discourse planning, ie how to structure the message in such a way that the reader can easily follow the writer's train of thought. It is in particular in this domain, discourse planning, that significant advances has been achieved during the last five years. The work is organized around four topics; system architecture, content planning, discourse planning, surface generation. There will be no survey material, as the intended readership should have some basic understanding of the problems involved in natural language generation. The book presents the most recent techniques designed for solving these problems, and should prove an indispensable reference for researchers working in the field.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
589 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85567-084-6 (9781855670846)
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Content
Part 1 Content planning: content determination and text structuring, Denis Cosgrove and Lidija Iordanskaja; explanation strategies for KADS-based expert systems, Michael Sprenger. Part 2 Text planning: from interclausal relations to discourse structure, Eduard Hovy; organizing discourse structure relations using metafunctions, Elizabeth Maier and Eduard Hovy; from constituent planning to text planning, Zuzana Krifka-Dobes and Hans-Joachi Novak. Part 3 Realization: how a systemic functional grammar works, Robin Fawcett, Gordon H. Tucker and Yuen Q. Lin; head-driven bottom-up generation and government and binding - a unified perspective, Fabio Pianesi. Part 4 Systems architecture: decision making throughout the generation process in the systems WISBER and DIAMOD, Helmut Horacek; a revision-based generation architecture for reporting facts in their historical context, Jacques Robin. Part 5 Selected topics: the initial specifications for generation, introduction, Helmut Horacek; lexicalization, Ernst Buchberger.