Natural Language Generation: Third International Conference, INLG 2004, Brockenhurst, UK, July 14-16, 2004. Proceedings

Ardi Roelofs (auth.), Anja Belz, Roger Evans, Paul Piwek (eds.)0127462759, 9780127462752

The Third International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2004) was held from 14th to 16th July 2004 at Careys Manor, Brockenhurst, UK. Supported by the Association for Computational Linguistics Special – terest Group on Generation, the conference continued a twenty-year tradition of biennial international meetings on research into natural language generation. Recent conference venues have included Mitzpe Ramon, Israel (INLG 2000) and New York, USA (INLG 2002). It was our pleasure to invite the thriving and friendly NLG research community to the beautiful New Forest in the south of England for INLG 2004. INLG is the leading international conference in the ?eld of natural language generation. It provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of original research on all aspects of the generation of language, including psychological modelling of human language production as well as computational approaches to the automatic generation of language. This volume includes a paper by the keynote speaker, Ardi Roelofs of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholingu- tics and the F. C. Donders Centre for CognitiveNeuroimaging,18 regular papers reportingthelatestresearchresultsanddirections,and4studentpapersdescr- ing doctoral work in progress. These papers reveal a particular concentration of current research e?ort on statistical and machine learning methods, on referring expressions, and on variation in surface realisation. The papers were selected from 46 submissions from all over the world (27 from Europe, 13 from North America, 6 from elsewhere), which were subjected to a rigorous double-blind reviewing process undertaken by our hard-working programme committee.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
The Seduced Speaker: Modeling of Cognitive Control….Pages 1-10
Generating Intensional Answers in Intelligent Question Answering Systems….Pages 11-20
Salience-Driven Text Planning….Pages 21-30
Finetuning NLG Through Experiments with Human Subjects: The Case of Vague Descriptions….Pages 31-40
Indirect Supervised Learning of Content Selection Logic….Pages 41-50
Generating Referring Expressions Using Perceptual Groups….Pages 51-60
The Use of a Structural N-gram Language Model in Generation-Heavy Hybrid Machine Translation….Pages 61-69
On Referring to Sets of Objects Naturally….Pages 70-79
An ATMS Approach to Systemic Sentence Generation….Pages 80-89
A Corpus-Based Methodology for Evaluating Metrics of Coherence for Text Structuring….Pages 90-99
Classification-Based Generation Using TAG….Pages 100-109
Resolving Structural Ambiguity in Generated Speech….Pages 110-119
A Framework for Stylistically Controlled Generation….Pages 120-129
SEGUE: A Hybrid Case-Based Surface Natural Language Generator….Pages 130-140
Modelling Politeness in Natural Language Generation….Pages 141-150
Context-Based Incremental Generation for Dialogue….Pages 151-160
Contextual Influences on Near-Synonym Choice….Pages 161-170
Overgenerating Referring Expressions Involving Relations and Booleans….Pages 171-181
Reining in CCG Chart Realization….Pages 182-191
Categorization of Narrative Semantics for Use in Generative Multidocument Summarization….Pages 192-197
Corpus-Based Planning of Deictic Gestures in COMIC….Pages 198-204
Hybrid NLG in a Generic Dialog System….Pages 205-211
Two Kinds of Alternative Sets and a Marking Principle – When to Say Also ….Pages 212-218
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