Advances in Natural Language Generation: v. 1
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Published on 21. July 1988
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-86187-965-6 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays deals with the problem of natural language generation, that is: how to simulate by computer the determinism, organization and expression of thoughts in oral or written form. Compared to sentence or text-analysis (parsing) little work has been done in the field of generation, which is still a young discipline. Natural language generation is a complex task requiring different kinds of expertise. This work aims to avoid the problems encountered by automatic translation projects in the past by opening the debate and integrating specialists from a variety of disciplines. The contributors to these volumes bring a diversity of perspectives to address the problems of natural language generation and to suggest solutions. This is the first volume of a two volume work.
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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: 250 mm
Width: 160 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-86187-965-6 (9780861879656)
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Content
Part 1 State of the art: language generation and explanation, K.McKeown and B.Swartout. Part 2 Linguistic approaches (in defence of a particular theory, formalism): can a parsing grammar be used for natural language generation? - the negative example of LFG, R.Block; the application of unification for syntactic generation in German, H.Horacek; concerning the logical component of a language generator, S.Dik. Part 3 Implementational issues: two approaches to natural language generation, G.Adorni; the production of spoken dialogue, G.Houghton and M.Pearson; natural language generation from plans, C.Mellish; an approach for creating structured text, N.Simonin. Part 4 Psychological issues: automatic and executive processing in semantic and syntactic planning - a dual process model of speech production, T.Harley; incremental production of referential noun-phrases by human-speakers, H.Schriefers and T.Pechmann. Part 5 Educational applications: natural languages are flexible tools - that's what makes them hard to explain, to learn and to use, M.Zock.