Content determination in the generation of referring expressions:

Abstract: "In this paper, we describe a general framework for the generation of referring expressions. Given an intended referent in the domain, domain-dependent mapping rules build a domain-independent level of recoverable semantic structure, which encodes the semantic content to be recovered...

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Main Authors: Dale, R (Author), Haddock, N (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh 1991
Series:University <Edinburgh> / Department of Artificial Intelligence: DAI research paper 549
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Summary:Abstract: "In this paper, we describe a general framework for the generation of referring expressions. Given an intended referent in the domain, domain-dependent mapping rules build a domain-independent level of recoverable semantic structure, which encodes the semantic content to be recovered by the hearer; a second set of mapping rules then builds an abstract syntactic structure which is unified with a grammar and lexicon to produce a surface noun phrase
Within this framework, (i) we present a detailed description of the algorithms required to build the recoverable semantic structure, and discuss how the problem of infinite recursion can be handled when using relations in descriptions; and (ii) we show how the two levels of representation facilitate the generation of one-anaphoric noun phrases.
Physical Description:28 S.

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