Evans, Roger, Weir, David, Carroll, John, Paiva, Daniel and Belz, Anja (2007) Modelling control in generation. In: 11th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG).

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Abstract

In this paper we present a view of natural language generation in which the control structure of the generator is clearly separated from the content decisions made during generation, allowing us to explore and compare different control strategies in a systematic way. Our approach factors control into two components, a 'generation tree' which maps out the relationships between different decisions, and an algorithm for traversing such a tree which determines which choices are actually made. We illustrate the approach with examples of stylistic control and automatic text revision using both generative and empirical techniques. We argue that this approach provides a useful basis for the theoretical study of control in generation, and a framework for implementing generators with a range of control strategies. We also suggest that this approach can be developed into tool for analysing and adapting control aspects of other advanced wide-coverage generation systems.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Schools and Departments:	School of Engineering and Informatics > Informatics
Depositing User:	David Weir
Date Deposited:	06 Feb 2012 21:17
Last Modified:	13 Apr 2012 13:33
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/30593

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