Expressibility and the Problem of Efficient Text Planning.
Meteer, Marie.
Expressibility and the Problem of Efficient Text Planning. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (210 pages) - Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections . - Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections .
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Foreword -- 1 The Generation Gap -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Defining the problem -- 1.2.1 Key properties of the generation process -- 1.2.2 The computational problem of generation -- 1.2.3 The computational model -- 1.2.4 The implementation -- 1.3 Text Structure: an intermediate level of representation for text planning -- 1.3.1 A preview of Text Structure -- 1.3.2 Using the Text Structure for text planning -- 2 Terminology and Issues -- 2.1 The generation process -- 2.1.1 The activities of generation -- 2.1.2 The modularization of the generation process -- 2.2 Issues -- 2.2.1 Content delimitation: Whose responsibility is it? Isit a part of text planning -- 2.2.2 Lexical selection: text planning, linguistic realization, or both (or neither?) -- 2.2.3 What is revision and where does it go on? -- 2.2.4 What is "text structure"? -- 2.2.5 Composition of linguistic resources -- 3 Motivations from Language and Applications -- 3.1. Analysis of revisions -- 3.1.1 Description of the data -- 3.1.2 Goals for the analysis: generality -- 3.1.3 Analysis of the data using Text Structure -- 3.1.4 A theoretical framework -- 3.1.5 Conclusion -- 3.2 Motivations from applications -- 3.2.1 From application objects to language -- 3.2.2 Text Structure as an intermediate level -- 3.3. Summary -- 4 The Text Structure -- 4.1 Linguistic resources -- 4.1.1 What are the resources of language? -- 4.1.2 The concrete resources of language -- 4.1.3 Abstractions over concrete resources -- 4.2 Determining the vocabulary of Text Structure -- 4.2.1 Semantic categories -- 4.2.2 Constituent structure -- 4.3. The Text Structure representation -- 4.3.1 Definition of Text Structure -- 4.3.2 Text Structure nodes -- 4.3.3 The contents of Text Structure nodes -- 4.3.4 The Text Structure tree. 5 The Architecture of Spokesman -- 5.1 Overview of Spokesman -- 5.2. Building the Text Structure -- 5.2.1 Expanding and extending Text Structure nodes -- 5.2.2 Using realization classes -- 5.2.3 Making finer-grained choices -- 5.3. Building the linguistic specification -- 5.3.1 The input specification language -- 5.3.2 The relationship between Text Structure and specifications -- 5.3.3 Building specifications from Text Structure -- 5.3.4 Choosing from multiple alternatives -- 5.4. Control of the Text Planner -- 5.4.1 Top-level control loop -- 5.4.2 Mappings -- 6 Text Structure in Action -- 6.1 Incremental text generation from the "Main Street" simulation -- 6.1.1 Why is Main Street an interesting domain? -- 6.1.2 The selection algorithm -- 6.1.3 A walk through -- 6.2 Text Structure and portability -- 6.2.1 Interfacing to an application program -- 6.2.2 Capturing differences between domains -- 7 Alternative Architectures -- 7.1 Traditional two-component systems -- 7.1.1 McKeown's TEXT -- 7.1.2 Derr & -- McKeown -- 7.1.3 Mann & -- Moore -- 7.1.4 Penman -- 7.2 Non-traditional architectures -- 7.2.1 Appelt -- 7.2.2 Nirenburg -- 7.2.3 Gabriel -- 7.2.4 Danlos -- 7.3 Summary -- 8 Conclusion -- 8.1. Methodology -- 8.2 Summary of the contributions -- 8.2.1 An architecture for generation -- 8.2.2 The Spokesman generation system -- 8.3 What does this work have to say to AI in general? -- 8.3.1 Choosing the right technique -- 8.3.2 Knowledge representation -- 8.4 Future excitements -- 8.4.1 Lexical choice -- 8.4.2 Selection of information -- 8.4.3 Revision -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781474246576
Natural language processing (Computer science).
Electronic books.
QA76.9.N38 -- .M48 1992eb
006.35
Expressibility and the Problem of Efficient Text Planning. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (210 pages) - Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections . - Linguistics: Bloomsbury Academic Collections .
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Foreword -- 1 The Generation Gap -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Defining the problem -- 1.2.1 Key properties of the generation process -- 1.2.2 The computational problem of generation -- 1.2.3 The computational model -- 1.2.4 The implementation -- 1.3 Text Structure: an intermediate level of representation for text planning -- 1.3.1 A preview of Text Structure -- 1.3.2 Using the Text Structure for text planning -- 2 Terminology and Issues -- 2.1 The generation process -- 2.1.1 The activities of generation -- 2.1.2 The modularization of the generation process -- 2.2 Issues -- 2.2.1 Content delimitation: Whose responsibility is it? Isit a part of text planning -- 2.2.2 Lexical selection: text planning, linguistic realization, or both (or neither?) -- 2.2.3 What is revision and where does it go on? -- 2.2.4 What is "text structure"? -- 2.2.5 Composition of linguistic resources -- 3 Motivations from Language and Applications -- 3.1. Analysis of revisions -- 3.1.1 Description of the data -- 3.1.2 Goals for the analysis: generality -- 3.1.3 Analysis of the data using Text Structure -- 3.1.4 A theoretical framework -- 3.1.5 Conclusion -- 3.2 Motivations from applications -- 3.2.1 From application objects to language -- 3.2.2 Text Structure as an intermediate level -- 3.3. Summary -- 4 The Text Structure -- 4.1 Linguistic resources -- 4.1.1 What are the resources of language? -- 4.1.2 The concrete resources of language -- 4.1.3 Abstractions over concrete resources -- 4.2 Determining the vocabulary of Text Structure -- 4.2.1 Semantic categories -- 4.2.2 Constituent structure -- 4.3. The Text Structure representation -- 4.3.1 Definition of Text Structure -- 4.3.2 Text Structure nodes -- 4.3.3 The contents of Text Structure nodes -- 4.3.4 The Text Structure tree. 5 The Architecture of Spokesman -- 5.1 Overview of Spokesman -- 5.2. Building the Text Structure -- 5.2.1 Expanding and extending Text Structure nodes -- 5.2.2 Using realization classes -- 5.2.3 Making finer-grained choices -- 5.3. Building the linguistic specification -- 5.3.1 The input specification language -- 5.3.2 The relationship between Text Structure and specifications -- 5.3.3 Building specifications from Text Structure -- 5.3.4 Choosing from multiple alternatives -- 5.4. Control of the Text Planner -- 5.4.1 Top-level control loop -- 5.4.2 Mappings -- 6 Text Structure in Action -- 6.1 Incremental text generation from the "Main Street" simulation -- 6.1.1 Why is Main Street an interesting domain? -- 6.1.2 The selection algorithm -- 6.1.3 A walk through -- 6.2 Text Structure and portability -- 6.2.1 Interfacing to an application program -- 6.2.2 Capturing differences between domains -- 7 Alternative Architectures -- 7.1 Traditional two-component systems -- 7.1.1 McKeown's TEXT -- 7.1.2 Derr & -- McKeown -- 7.1.3 Mann & -- Moore -- 7.1.4 Penman -- 7.2 Non-traditional architectures -- 7.2.1 Appelt -- 7.2.2 Nirenburg -- 7.2.3 Gabriel -- 7.2.4 Danlos -- 7.3 Summary -- 8 Conclusion -- 8.1. Methodology -- 8.2 Summary of the contributions -- 8.2.1 An architecture for generation -- 8.2.2 The Spokesman generation system -- 8.3 What does this work have to say to AI in general? -- 8.3.1 Choosing the right technique -- 8.3.2 Knowledge representation -- 8.4 Future excitements -- 8.4.1 Lexical choice -- 8.4.2 Selection of information -- 8.4.3 Revision -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781474246576
Natural language processing (Computer science).
Electronic books.
QA76.9.N38 -- .M48 1992eb
006.35