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INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Towards a Programmable Instrumented Generator
In this paper, we propose a general way of constructing an NLG system that permits the systematic exploration of the effects of particular system choices on output quality. We cal...
Chris Mellish
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Paraphrase Generation as Monolingual Translation: Data and Evaluation
In this paper we investigate the automatic generation and evaluation of sentential paraphrases. We describe a method for generating sentential paraphrases by using a large aligned...
Sander Wubben, Antal van den Bosch, Emiel Krahmer
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
A Discourse-Aware Graph-Based Content-Selection Framework
This paper presents an easy-to-adapt, discourse-aware framework that can be utilized as the content selection component of a generation system whose goal is to deliver descriptive...
Seniz Demir, Sandra Carberry, Kathleen F. McCoy
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Finding Common Ground: Towards a Surface Realisation Shared Task
In many areas of NLP reuse of utility tools such as parsers and POS taggers is now common, but this is still rare in NLG. The subfield of surface realisation has perhaps come clos...
Anja Belz, Mike White, Josef van Genabith, Deirdre...
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Generating Referring Expressions with Reference Domain Theory
In this paper we present a reference generation model based on Reference Domain Theory which gives a dynamic account of reference. This reference model assumes that each referring...
Alexandre Denis
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Text Generation
We present a novel approach to natural language generation (NLG) that applies hierarchical reinforcement learning to text generation in the wayfinding domain. Our approach aims to...
Nina Dethlefs, Heriberto Cuayáhuitl
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Harvesting Re-usable High-level Rules for Expository Dialogue Generation
This paper proposes a method for extracting high-level rules for expository dialogue generation. The rules are extracted from dialogues that have been authored by expert dialogue ...
Svetlana Stoyanchev, Paul Piwek
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
JU_CSE_GREC10: Named Entity Generation at GREC 2010
This paper presents the experiments carried out at Jadavpur University as part of the participation in the GREC Named Entity Generation Challenge 2010. The Baseline system is base...
Amitava Das, Tanik Saikh, Tapabrata Mondal, Sivaji...
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Extracting Parallel Fragments from Comparable Corpora for Data-to-text Generation
Building NLG systems, in particular statistical ones, requires parallel data (paired inputs and outputs) which do not generally occur naturally. In this paper, we investigate the ...
Anja Belz, Eric Kow
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Helping Our Own: Text Massaging for Computational Linguistics as a New Shared Task
In this paper, we propose a new shared task called HOO: Helping Our Own. The aim is to use tools and techniques developed in computational linguistics to help people writing about...
Robert Dale, Adam Kilgarriff