A Corpus-based Analysis for the Ordering of Clause Aggregation Operators

To better understand the ordering of clause aggregation operators in a text generation application, we manually annotated a small corpus. The annotated corpus supports the preferred ordering of transformations that result in shorter surface expressions, such as adjectives over relative clauses. In addition, we were able to explain why paratactic operators are applied before and after hypotactic operators.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: COLING
• Authors: James Shaw
• Keywords: Clause Aggregation Operators, COLING 2002, COLING 2008, Shorter Surface Expressions, Text Generation Application