Natural Language Generation Systems

✍ Scribed by Richard P. Gabriel (auth.), David D. McDonald, Leonard Bolc (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 400
• Series: Symbolic Computation
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Natural language generation is a field within artificial intelligence which looks ahead to the future when machines will communicate complex thoughts to their human users in a natural way. Generation systems supply the sophisticated knowledge about natural languages that must come into play when one needs to use wordings that will overpower techniques based only on symbolic string manipulation techniques. Topics covered in this volume include discourse theory, mechanical translation, deliberate writing, and revision. Natural Language Generation Systems contains contributions by leading researchers in the field. Chapters contain details of grammatical treatments and processing seldom reported on outside of full length monographs.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Deliberate Writing....Pages 1-46
Text Generation: The Problem of Text Structure....Pages 47-68
Planning Natural-Language Referring Expressions....Pages 69-97
Surface Transformations During the Generation of Written German Sentences....Pages 98-165
VIE-GEN A Generator for German Texts....Pages 166-204
Generation of Sentences from a Syntactic Deep Structure with a Semantic Component....Pages 205-255
Generating Japanese Text from Conceptual Representation....Pages 256-279
Fluency in Natural Language Reports....Pages 280-311
PHRED: A Generator for Natural Language Interfaces....Pages 312-352
Generating Language with a Phrasal Lexicon....Pages 353-384
Back Matter....Pages 385-389

✦ Subjects

Linguistics (general); Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)