New Concepts in Natural Language Generation Planning, Realization and Systems [Hardcover]

This book aims to inform researchers with an interest in natural language generation about advances in the field. It is organised around four topics  system architectures, content planning, discourse planning and realisation in linguistic form - and it presents some of the most important works in this area of research.

IntroductionHelmut Horacek and Michael Zock

Part I. Content Planning
1. Content Determination and Text Structuring: Two Interrelated ProcessesDenis Carcagno And Lidija Iordanskaja
2. Explanation Strategies for KADS-Based Expert SystemsMichael Sprenger

Part II. Text Planning
3. From Interclausal Relations To Discourse Structure - A Long Way Behind, A Long Way AheadEduard Hovy
4. Organising Discourse Structure Relations Using MetafunctionsElisabeth Maier and Eduard Hovy
5. From Constituent Planning To Text PlanningZuzana Krifka-Dobei and Hans-Joachim Novak

Part III. Realization
6. How a Systemic Functional Grammar Works: The Role of Realization in RealizationRobin P. Fawcett, Gordon H. Tucker and Yuen Q. Lin
7. Head-Driven Bottom-Up Generation and Government and Binding: A Unified PerspectiveFabio Pianesi

Part IV. Systems
8. Decision Making Throughout the Generation Process in The Systems WISBER And DIAMOD
Helmut Horacek
9. A Revision-Based Generation Architecture for Reporting Facts in Their Historical ContextJacques Robin

Part V. Selected Topics
10. The Initial Specifications for Generation
Introduction:Helmut Horacek
A. The Initial Specifications for Generation:Robert Dale
B. 'Does Natural Language Generation Start From A Specification?':David D. McDonald
C. Notes on 'The Initial Specifications for Generation':Dietmar Rosner
D. On the Generator Input of the Future:Eduard Hovy

11. Lexicalization
Introduction:Ernst Buchberger
A. Is Content Genl“5