Advances in Natural Language Generation: v. 2
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Published on 1. July 1988
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-86187-995-3 (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 second 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
978-0-86187-995-3 (9780861879953)
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Content
Part 1 Linguistic approaches (in defence of a particular theory, formalism): a phrase-structure grammar with discontinuous grammar, H.Bunt; language generation as choice in social interaction, R.P.Fawcett. Part 2 Implementational issues: a lexically distributed word ordering component, D.Parisi and A.Giorgi; the generation of subsequent referring expressions in structured discourse, R.Dale; generating referring phrases in a dynamic environment, H.Novak; the generation system of the SEMSYN project - towards a task-independent generator for German, D.Roesner; natural language generation - one individual implementer's experience, T.L.Kwee. Part 3 Psychological issues: discourse planning and production - an outline of the process and some variables, V.Zammuner; the effect of the macro-control of information on the temporal characteristics of text production, A.Piolat and F.Farioli. Part 4 Educational applications: building a sentence generator for teaching linguistics, D.Bakker, B.van der Korst and G.van Schaaik.