Practical grammar-based NLG from examples

  • Authors:
  • David DeVault;David Traum;Ron Artstein

  • Affiliations:
  • USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Marina del Rey, CA;USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Marina del Rey, CA;USC Institute for Creative Technologies, Marina del Rey, CA

  • Venue:
  • INLG '08 Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a technique that opens up grammar-based generation to a wider range of practical applications by dramatically reducing the development costs and linguistic expertise that are required. Our method infers the grammatical resources needed for generation from a set of declarative examples that link surface expressions directly to the application's available semantic representations. The same examples further serve to optimize a run-time search strategy that generates the best output that can be found within an application-specific time frame. Our method offers substantially lower development costs than hand-crafted grammars for application-specific NLG, while maintaining high output quality and diversity.