Cooking Up Referring Expressions

This paper describes the referring expression generation mechanisms used in EPICURE, a computer program which produces natural language descriptions of cookery recipes. Major features of the system include: an underlying ontology which permits the representation of non-singular entities; a notion of diacriminatory power, to determine what properties should be used in a description; and a PATR-like unification grammar to produce surface linguistic strings.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1989
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Robert Dale
• Keywords: ACL 1989, ACL 2007, Natural Language Descriptions, Referring Expression Generation, Surface Linguistic Strings