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ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
The Prevalence of Descriptive Referring Expressions in News and Narrative
Generating referring expressions is a key step in Natural Language Generation. Researchers have focused almost exclusively on generating distinctive referring expressions, that is...
Raquel Hervás, Mark A. Finlayson
ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Entity-Based Local Coherence Modelling Using Topological Fields
One goal of natural language generation is to produce coherent text that presents information in a logical order. In this paper, we show that topological fields, which model high-...
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, Gerald Penn
IBERAMIA
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Improved Text Generation Using N-gram Statistics
Abstract. In Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems, a generalpurpose surface realisation module will usually require the underlying application to provide highly detailed input...
Eder Miranda de Novais, Thiago Dias Tadeu, Ivandr&...
IBERAMIA
2010
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Text-to-Text Surface Realisation Using Dependency-Tree Replacement
Surface realisation - the task of producing word strings from non-linguistic input data - has been the focus of a great deal of research in the field of data-to-text Natural Langu...
Eder Miranda de Novais, Thiago Dias Tadeu, Ivandr&...
NLE
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
Choosing the content of textual summaries of large time-series data sets
Natural Language Generation (NLG) can be used to generate textual summaries of numeric data sets. In this paper we develop an architecture for generating short (a few sentences) s...
Jin Yu, Ehud Reiter, Jim Hunter, Chris Mellish
CSL
1998
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Evaluation in the context of natural language generation
What role should evaluation play in the development of natural language generation () techniques and systems? In this paper we describe what is involved in natural langua...
Chris Mellish, R. Dale
CSL
2002
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
Stochastic natural language generation for spoken dialog systems
We describe a corpus-based approach to natural language generation (NLG). The approach has been implemented as a component of a spoken dialog system and a series of evaluations we...
Alice Oh, Alexander I. Rudnicky
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
Towards Automatic Generation of Natural Language Generation Systems
Systems that interact with the user via natural language are in their infancy. As these systems mature and become more complex, it would be desirable for a system developer if the...
John Chen, Srinivas Bangalore, Owen Rambow, Marily...
CI
2000
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13 years 4 months ago
Choosing Rhetorical Structures to Plan Instructional Texts
This paper discusses a fundamental problem in natural language generation: how to organize the content of a text in a coherent and natural way. In this research, we set out to det...
Leila Kosseim, Guy Lapalme
NLE
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Generating basic skills reports for low-skilled readers
We describe SkillSum, a Natural Language Generation (NLG) system that generates a personalised feedback report for someone who has just completed a screening assessment of their b...
Sandra Williams, Ehud Reiter