Extending a surface realizer to generate coherent discourse

  • Authors:
  • Eva Banik

  • Affiliations:
  • The Open University, Milton Keynes

  • Venue:
  • ACLShort '09 Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present a discourse-level Tree Adjoining Grammar which tightly integrates syntax and discourse levels, including a representation for discourse entities. We show that this technique makes it possible to extend an optimisation algorithm used in natural language generation (polarity filtering) to the discourse level. We implemented the grammar in a surface realizer and show that this technique can be used to reduce the search space by filtering out referentially incoherent solutions.