Natural Language Generation

Belz A., Evans R.3540278230

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation, INLG 2004, held in Brockenhurst, UK in July 2004.The 18 revised full papers presented together with an invited keynote paper and 4 student papers reporting ongoing PhD research work were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. All current aspects of the generation of natural language are addressed, including psychological modeling of human language production as well as computational approaches to the automatic generation of language.

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Table of contents :
Table of Contents……Page 10
The Seduced Speaker: Modeling of Cognitive Control……Page 12
Generating Intensional Answers in Intelligent Question Answering Systems……Page 22
Salience-Driven Text Planning……Page 32
Finetuning NLG Through Experiments with Human Subjects: The Case of Vague Descriptions……Page 42
Indirect Supervised Learning of Content Selection Logic……Page 52
Generating Referring Expressions Using Perceptual Groups……Page 62
The Use of a Structural N-gram Language Model in Generation-Heavy Hybrid Machine Translation……Page 72
On Referring to Sets of Objects Naturally……Page 81
An ATMS Approach to Systemic Sentence Generation……Page 91
A Corpus-Based Methodology for Evaluating Metrics of Coherence for Text Structuring……Page 101
Classification-Based Generation Using TAG……Page 111
Resolving Structural Ambiguity in Generated Speech……Page 121
A Framework for Stylistically Controlled Generation……Page 131
SEGUE: A Hybrid Case-Based Surface Natural Language Generator……Page 141
Modelling Politeness in Natural Language Generation……Page 152
Context-Based Incremental Generation for Dialogue……Page 162
Contextual Influences on Near-Synonym Choice……Page 172
Overgenerating Referring Expressions Involving Relations and Booleans……Page 182
Reining in CCG Chart Realization……Page 193
Categorization of Narrative Semantics for Use in Generative Multidocument Summarization……Page 203
Corpus-Based Planning of Deictic Gestures in COMIC……Page 209
Hybrid NLG in a Generic Dialog System……Page 216
Two Kinds of Alternative Sets and a Marking Principle – When to Say Also……Page 223
Author Index……Page 230