Sentence generation as a planning problem

In this paper, we translate sentence generation from TAG grammars with semantic and pragmatic information into a planning problem by encoding the contribution of each word declaratively and explicitly. This allows us to tap into the recent performance improvements in off-the-shelf planners. It also opens up new perspectives on referring expression generation and the relationship between language and action.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Alexander Koller, Matthew Stone
• Keywords: ACL 2007, Computational Linguistics, Referring Expression Generation, Sentence Generation, TAG Grammars