Controlling a Language Generation Planner

The set of partially interdependent lexical and syntactic decisions that have to be made in the process of natural language generation are best seen as a complex planning and search problem. This paper discusses the phenomena involved in natural language generation planning and argues that a blackboard-type architecture with agenda-style control is more appropriate for this task than a sequential control architecture with backtracking. The blackboard architecture we describe is implemented in the language generator DIOGENES.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1989
• Where: IJCAI
• Authors: Sergei Nirenburg, Victor R. Lesser, Eric Nyberg
• Keywords: IJCAI 1989, IJCAI 2007, Language Generation Planning, Natural Language Generation, Sequential Control Architecture