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INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
'If you've heard it, you can say it' - Towards an Account of Expressibility
We have begun a project to automatically create the lexico-syntactic resources for a microplanner as a side-effect of running a domain-specific language understanding system. The ...
David McDonald, Charlie Greenbacker
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Using Semantic Web Technology to Support NLG. Case Study: OWL finds RAGS
The semantic web is a general vision for supporting knowledge-based processing across the WWW and its successors. As such, semantic web technology has potential to support the exc...
Chris Mellish
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Poly-co: An Unsupervised Co-reference Detection System
We describe our contribution to the Generation Challenge 2010 for the tasks of Named Entity Recognition and coreference detection (GREC-NER). To extract the NE and the referring e...
Eric Charton, Michel Gagnon, Benoît Ozell
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Report on the Second NLG Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE-2)
We describe the second installment of the Challenge on Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE-2), a shared task for the NLG community which took place in 2009-10. W...
Alexander Koller, Kristina Striegnitz, Andrew Garg...
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Complex Lexico-syntactic Reformulation of Sentences Using Typed Dependency Representations
We present a framework for reformulating sentences by applying transfer rules on a typed dependency representation. We specify a list of operations that the framework needs to sup...
Advaith Siddharthan
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Cross-linguistic Attribute Selection for REG: Comparing Dutch and English
In this paper we describe a cross-linguistic experiment in attribute selection for referring expression generation. We used a graph-based attribute selection algorithm that was tr...
Mariët Theune, Ruud Koolen, Emiel Krahmer
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Applying Semantic Frame Theory to Automate Natural Language Template Generation From Ontology Statements
Today there exist a growing number of framenet-like resources offering semantic and syntactic phrase specifications that can be exploited by natural language generation systems. I...
Dana Dannélls
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Grouping Axioms for More Coherent Ontology Descriptions
Ontologies and datasets for the Semantic Web are encoded in OWL formalisms that are not easily comprehended by people. To make ontologies accessible to human domain experts, sever...
Sandra Williams, Richard Power
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Charting the Potential of Description Logic for the Generation of Referring Expressions
The generation of referring expressions (GRE), an important subtask of Natural Language Generation (NLG) is to generate phrases that uniquely identify domain entities. Until recen...
Yuan Ren, Kees van Deemter, Jeff Z. Pan
INLG
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Named Entity Generation Using Sampling-based Structured Prediction
The problem of Named Entity Generation is expressed as a conditional probability model over a structured domain. By defining a factor-graph model over the mentions of a text, we o...
Guillaume Bouchard