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COLING
1992
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Self-Monitoring with Reversible Grammars
We describe a method and its implementation for self-monitoring during natural language generation. In situations of communication where the generation of ambiguous utterances sho...
Günter Neumann, Gertjan van Noord
IJCAI
1989
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Controlling a Language Generation Planner
The set of partially interdependent lexical and syntactic decisions that have to be made in the process of natural language generation are best seen as a complex planning and sear...
Sergei Nirenburg, Victor R. Lesser, Eric Nyberg
ANLP
2000
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A Representation for Complex and Evolving Data Dependencies in Generation
This paper introduces an approach to representing the kinds of information that components in a natural language generation (NLG) system will need to communicate to one another. T...
Chris Mellish, Roger Evans, Lynne J. Cahill, Chris...
ANLP
2000
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Experimenting with the Interaction between Aggregation and Text Structuring
In natural language generation, different generation tasks often interact with each other in a complex way, which is hard to capture in the pipeline architecture described by Reit...
Hua Cheng
ACL
1998
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A Computational Model of Social Perlocutions
The view that communication is a form of action serving a variety of specific functions has had a tremendous impact on the philosophy of language and on computational linguistics....
David Pautler, Alex Quilici
RANLP
2003
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Near-synonym choice in natural language generation
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...
Diana Zaiu Inkpen, Graeme Hirst
NAACL
2003
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Language choice models for microplanning and readability
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...
Sandra Williams
HCI
2001
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Towards generating textual summaries of graphs
For people who use text-based web browsers, graphs, diagrams, and pictures are inaccessible. Yet, such diagrams are quite prominent in documents commonly found on the web. In this...
Kathleen F. McCoy, Sandra Carberry, Tom Roper, Nan...
ACL
2003
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Probabilistic Text Structuring: Experiments with Sentence Ordering
Ordering information is a critical task for natural language generation applications. In this paper we propose an approach to information ordering that is particularly suited for ...
Mirella Lapata
FLAIRS
2006
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Referring-Expression Generation Using a Transformation-Based Learning Approach
A natural language generation system must generate expressions that allow a reader to identify the entities to which they refer. This paper describes the creation of referring-exp...
Jill Nickerson, Stuart M. Shieber, Barbara J. Gros...