Expressibility and the Problem of Efficient Text Planning

by Marie Meteer

Overview

A central problem of natural language generation is that of 'expressibility'. Meteer presents a solution which uses a level of representation called the Text Structure, an intermediate between the representation of world and the language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474246569
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/17/2015
Series:	Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Marie Meteer is Adjunct Professor at Brandeis University, USA, and an independent consultant.

Table of Contents

Foreword David McDonald

1 The 'Generation Gap'
1.1 Overview
1.2 Defining the problem
1.3 Text Structure: An Intermediate Level of Representation for Text Planning

2 Terminology and Issues
2.1 The Generation Process
2.2 Issues

3 Motivations From Language and Applications
3.1 Analysis of Revisions
3.2 Motivations from Application
3.3 Summary

4 The Text Structure
4.1 Linguistic Resources
4.2 Determining the Vocabulary of Text Structure
4.3 The Text Structure Representation

5 The Architecture of Spokesman
5.1 Overview of Spokesman
5.2 Building the Text Structure
5.3 Building the Linguistic Specifications
5.4 Control of the Text Planner

6 Text Structure in Action
6.1 Incremental Text Generation from the 'Main Street' Simulation
6.2 Text Structure and Portability

7 Alternative Architectures
7.1 Traditional Two-Component Systems
7.2 Non-Traditional Architectures
7.3 Summary

8 Conclusion
8.1 Methodology
8.2 Summary of the Contributors
8.3 What Does This Work Have to Say to AI in General?
8.4 Future Excitements

Bibliography
Index