Near-synonyms are useful knowledge resources for many natural language applications such as query expansion for information retrieval (IR) and paraphrasing for text generation. Ho...
We present Xenon, a natural language generation system capable of distinguishing between nearsynonyms. It integrates a near-synonym choice module with an existing sentence realiza...
An important component of any generation system is the mapping dictionary, a lexicon of elementary semantic expressions and corresponding natural language realizations. Typically,...
This paper describes the construction of language choice models for the microplanning of discourse relations in a Natural Language Generation system that attempts to generate appr...