Trends in Natural Language Generation - An Artificial Intelligence Perspective: Fourth European Workshop, EWNLG '93, Pisa, Italy, April 28-30, 1993 Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

This Volume Includes Revised Final Versions Of The Best Papers Presented At The Fourth European Workshop On Natural Language Generation, Ewnlg '93, Held In Pisa, Italy In April 1993. Out Of The 35 Papers Accepted For Presentation At The Workshop, 19 Were Selected For Publication In This Book. The Papers Deal With Nlg From Different Perspectives: Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, And Engineering. The Broad Spectrum Covered And The Outstanding Quality Of The Papers Presented Are Evidence Of The Remarkable Dynamism Of The Field.--publisher's Website. Architectures For Natural Language Generation : Problems And Perspectives / Koenraad De Smedt, Helmut Horacek, Michael Zock -- Choosing A Set Of Coherence Relations For Text Generation : A Data-driven Approach / Alistair Knott, Robert Dale -- Textual Relations As Part Of Multiple Links Between Text Segments / Elisabeth Maier -- Aggregation In Natural Language Generation / Hercules Dalianis, Eduard Hovy -- Towards A Representation Of The Rhetorical Structure Of Interrupted Exchanges / Thanasis Daradoumis -- Stylistic Decision-making In Natural Language Generation / Stephen J. Green, Chrysanne Dimarco -- Idp : An Interactive Discourse Planner / Susan M. Haller, Stuart C. Shapiro -- Reasoning About Coherent And Cooperative System Responses / Kristiina Jokinen -- Domain Related Focus-shifting Constraints In Dialogues With Knowledge Based Systems / Jens-uwe Moeller -- Integrating Text Formatting And Text Generation / Elsa Pascual -- Lexical Options In Multilingual Generation From A Knowledge Base / Manfred Stede -- Prétexte : A Generator For The Expression Of Temporal Information / Michel Gagnon, Guy Lapalme -- Generating Grammatical And Lexical Anaphora In Assembly Instructional Texts / Leila Kosseim [and Others] -- Incremental Grammatical Encoding : An Outline Of The Synphonics Formulator / Bernd Abb [and Others] -- A Chart-based Semantic Head Driven Generation Algorithm / Masahiko Haruno, Yasuharu Den, Yuji Matsumoto -- Generating Sentences Using Profglot / Simon C. Dik, Peter Kahrel -- Multilingual Textuality : Some Experiences From Multilingual Text Generation / Elke Teich, Liesbeth Degand, John Bateman -- A Dutch Component For A Multilingual Systemic Text Generation System / Liesbeth Degand -- Natural Language Generation Applications To Technical Documentation : A View Through Idas / Chris Mellish, Ehud Reiter, John Levine. Giovanni Adorni, Michael Zock, (eds.). Includes Bibliographical References. Introduction....Pages 1-16 Architectures for natural language generation: Problems and perspectives....Pages 17-46 Choosing a set of coherence relations for text generation: A data-driven approach....Pages 47-67 Textual relations as part of multiple links between text segments....Pages 68-87 Aggregation in natural language generation....Pages 88-105 Towards a representation of the Rhetorical Structure of interrupted exchanges....Pages 106-124 Stylistic decision-making in natural language generation....Pages 125-143 IDP — An interactive discourse planner....Pages 144-167 Reasoning about coherent and cooperative system responses....Pages 168-187 Domain-related focus-shifting constraints in dialogues with knowledge based systems....Pages 188-204 Integrating text formatting and text generation....Pages 205-221 Lexical options in multilingual generation from a knowledge base....Pages 222-237 Prétexte: A generator for the expression of temporal information....Pages 238-259 Generating grammatical and lexical anaphora in assembly instructional texts....Pages 260-276 Incremental grammatical encoding — An outline of the Synphonics Formulator....Pages 277-299 A chart-based semantic head driven generation algorithm....Pages 300-313 Generating sentences using ProfGlot....Pages 314-330 Multilingual textuality: Some experiences from multilingual text generation....Pages 331-349 A Dutch component for a multilingual systemic text generation system....Pages 350-367 NLG applications to technical documentation A view through IDAS....Pages 368-382