The Linguistic Basis of Text Generation

by Laurence Danlos

• ISBN13: 9780521108492
• ISBN10: 0521108497
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-09
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This study presents an original and penetrating analysis of the complex problems surrounding the automatic generation of natural language text. Laurence Danlos provides a valuable critical review of research in this important and increasingly active field and goes on to describe a theoretical model that is thoroughly grounded in linguistic principles. The model emphasises the semantic, syntactic and lexical constraints that must be dealt with when establishing a relationship between meaning and form and it is consideration of such linguistic constraints that determines Danlos' generation algorithm. The book concludes with a description of a generation system based on this algorithm which produces texts in several domains and also a system for the synthesis of spoken messages from semantic representation. The book is a significant addition to the literature on text generation and will be of particular interest to all computational linguists and AI researchers who have wrestled with the problem of vocabulary selection.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Author's note

Introduction

Introductory example: production of error messages

Automatic generation: an overview

The linguistic basis of a generation system

Discourse grammar

Applications of the model

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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