Creation of a new domain and evaluation of comparison generation in a natural language generation system

Authors:
Matthew Marge;Amy Isard;Johanna Moore
Affiliations:
Carnegie Mellon University;University of Edinburgh;University of Edinburgh
Venue:
INLG '08 Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference
Year:
2008

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Abstract

We describe the creation of a new domain for the Methodius Natural Language Generation System, and an evaluation of Methodius' parameterized comparison generation algorithm. The new domain was based around music and performers, and texts about the domain were generated using Methodius. Our evaluation showed that test subjects learned more from texts that contained comparisons than from those that did not. We also established that the comparison generation algorithm could generalize to the music domain.