TY - GEN
T1 - Choosing a set of coherence relations for text generation
T2 - 4th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, EWNLG 1993
AU - Knott, Alistair
AU - Dale, Robert
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - An active research programme in Natural Language Generation has grown up around the notion of ‘coherence relations’. Relations are being used in a variety of roles in generation systems, in planning the structure of messages and in guiding their linguistic realisation. However, a confusing diversity exists between systems with respect to the particular relations they use. This paper outlines a systematic methodology for justifying a set of relations, on the basis of the cue phrases that can be used to signal them explicitly in text. A large taxonomy of cue phrases has been gathered, from which a conception of relations as feature-based constructs is motivated. By considering small extracts from the taxonomy, individual features of relations can then be investigated in isolation. The paper concludes by noting some advantages of a feature-theoretic treatment of relations for NLG, as well as some problems with a reliance on cue phrases in a theory of text coherence.
AB - An active research programme in Natural Language Generation has grown up around the notion of ‘coherence relations’. Relations are being used in a variety of roles in generation systems, in planning the structure of messages and in guiding their linguistic realisation. However, a confusing diversity exists between systems with respect to the particular relations they use. This paper outlines a systematic methodology for justifying a set of relations, on the basis of the cue phrases that can be used to signal them explicitly in text. A large taxonomy of cue phrases has been gathered, from which a conception of relations as feature-based constructs is motivated. By considering small extracts from the taxonomy, individual features of relations can then be investigated in isolation. The paper concludes by noting some advantages of a feature-theoretic treatment of relations for NLG, as well as some problems with a reliance on cue phrases in a theory of text coherence.
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M3 - Conference proceeding contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84876149199
SN - 3540608001
SN - 3540608001
SN - 9783540608004
SN - 9783540608004
VL - 1036
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 47
EP - 67
BT - Trends in Natural Language Generation: An Artificial Intelligence Perspective - Fourth European Workshop, EWNLG 1993, Selected Papers
PB - Springer, Springer Nature
CY - Berlin; Heidelberg
Y2 - 28 April 1993 through 30 April 1993
ER -