... Integrating Discourse Markers into a
Pipelined Natural Language Generation Architecture
Charles B. Callaway
ITC-irst, Trento, Italy
via Sommarive, 18
Povo (Trento), Italy, I-38050
callaway@itc.it
Abstract
Pipelined ... I-38050
callaway@itc.it
Abstract
Pipelined Natural Language Generation
(NLG) systems have grown increasingly
complex as architectural modules were
add...
... starts, and other ungram-
matical input. In natural language generation, on
the other hand, robustness is not an issue in the
same way. While a tactical generator must be able
to deal with a wide range ... effectiveness of a form-based sim-
ilarity metric, we encoded each adjective pair ab
as a vector of 16 features (the last 8 characters
of a and the last 8 characters of b) an...
... and within
coordinate structures. These models sim-
ulate the reading time advantage for par-
allel structures found in human data, and
also yield a small increase in overall pars-
ing accuracy.
1 ... house.
b. DT NN and DT JJ NN (non-parallel)
Hilda noticed a man and a strange
woman when she entered the house.
c. DT JJ NN and DT NN (non-parallel)
Hilda noticed a tall man and a woma...
... to many ap-
plications in natural language processing. The
main challenge in language modeling is to estimate
string probabilities accurately given that even very
large training corpora cannot ... recognition, pages
450–506. Morgan Kaufmann.
Raquel Justo and M. In´es Torres. 2009. Phrase classes in
two-level language models for ASR. Pattern Analysis
& Applications, 12(4):427–437....
... Rules into a Finite-state Transducer
Srinivas Bangalore
AT&T Labs–Research
180 Park Avenue
Florham Park, NJ 07932
Abstract
A number of NLP tasks have been effectively mod-
eled as classification ... WFST on a call-routing application.
1 Introduction
Many problems in Natural Language Processing
(NLP) can be modeled as classification tasks either
at the word or at the sentence lev...
... bll the variable rrtessage a message whose
label is 'ease' and whose value is 'subject '.
; a variable rrteasage holds the value of an incoming message and a
variable self ... similar eharacterics
can be grouped together as a class; we may, for example, have
a class 'noun' as a superclass of lexicai items 'boy', 'girl',
'...
... Treebank, produce syntactic
parse trees with bare phrase labels, such as NP, PP,
S, although the training corpora are usually much
richer and often contain additional grammatical and
semantic ... functional tags. Thus,
it is informative to compare our results with those
reported in (Blaheta and Charniak, 2000) for this
same task. Blaheta and Charniak measured tag-
ging accuracy and precision/...
... analyst.
It can alternatively help the analyst
learn the
specification language by displaying the graphical
representation of a given description.
With a natural language generation facility it ... (1) and (2). Most importantly in the
latter respect, it should have a reasonable treatment of the
variety of natural language quantifiers and relative clauses.
Many databa...