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INLG
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Reining in CCG Chart Realization
Abstract. We present a novel ensemble of six methods for improving the efficiency of chart realization. The methods are couched in the framework of Combinatory Categorial Grammar (...
Michael White
INLG
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Overgenerating Referring Expressions Involving Relations and Booleans
Abstract. We present a new approach to the generation of referring expressions containing attributive, type and relational properties combined by conjunctions, disjunctions and neg...
Sebastian Varges
INLG
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Two Kinds of Alternative Sets and a Marking Principle - When to Say Also
Abstract. Discourse anaphora other than definite NPs have not received much attention in generation. This paper proposes a strategy for generating the additive particle also, a no...
Kristina Striegnitz
INLG
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
The Seduced Speaker: Modeling of Cognitive Control
Abstract. Although humans are the ultimate “natural language generators”, the area of psycholinguistic modeling has been somewhat underrepresented in recent approaches to Natur...
Ardi Roelofs
INLG
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Context-Based Incremental Generation for Dialogue
This paper describes an implemented model of context-based incremental tactical generation within the Dynamic Syntax framework [1] which directly reflects dialogue phenomena such ...
Matthew Purver, Ruth Kempson
INLG
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Resolving Structural Ambiguity in Generated Speech
Ambiguity in the output is a concern for NLG in general. This paper considers the case of structural ambiguity in spoken language generation. We present an algorithm which inserts ...
Chris Mellish
INLG
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
A Corpus-Based Methodology for Evaluating Metrics of Coherence for Text Structuring
This paper presents a novel corpus-based methodology for comparing metrics of coherence with respect to their potential usefulness for text structuring. Different definitions of ...
Nikiforos Karamanis, Chris Mellish, Jon Oberlander...
INLG
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Generating Referring Expressions Using Perceptual Groups
Past work of generating referring expressions mainly utilized attributes of objects and binary relations between objects to distinguish the referent from other objects. However, su...
Kotaro Funakoshi, Satoru Watanabe, Naoko Kuriyama,...
INLG
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Corpus-Based Planning of Deictic Gestures in COMIC
Abstract. We describe the recording and annotation of a corpus of roleplaying dialogues in the domain of the COMIC multimodal dialogue system. We give some generalisations about th...
Mary Ellen Foster
INLG
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Categorization of Narrative Semantics for Use in Generative Multidocument Summarization
The generative summarization of textual stories has been one of the goals of computational narratology since attempts at full semantic NLU in the ’70s. Our NLP group has recently...
David K. Elson