Preserving Ambiguities in Generation via Automata Intersection

We discuss the problem of generating text that preserves certain ambiguities, a capability that is useful in applications such as machine translation. We show that it is relatively simple to extend a hybrid symbolic/statistical generator to do ambiguity preservation. The paper gives algorithms and examples, and it discusses practical linguistic difficulties that arise in ambiguity preservation.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: AAAI
• Authors: Kevin Knight, Irene Langkilde
• Keywords: AAAI 2000, Ambiguity Preservation, Certain Ambiguities, Hybrid Symbolic/statistical Generator, Intelligent Agents