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.
By:
Marie Meteer (Brandeis University US) Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 450g ISBN:9781474246569 ISBN 10: 1474246567 Series:Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections Pages: 208 Publication Date:01 December 2015 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
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
Marie Meteer is Adjunct Professor at Brandeis University, USA, and an independent consultant.