Reconciling parameterization, configurability and optimality in natural language generation via multiparadigm programming

  • Authors:
  • Jorge Marques Pelizzoni;Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brasil;Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brasil

  • Venue:
  • CICLing'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper focuses on how multiparadigm – namely, constraint, object-oriented and higher-order – programming can be drawn upon not only to specify multiparameterized linguistic realization engines but also and above all to rationalize their configuration into full-fledged generation modules for specific language-application pairs. We describe Manati, one such engine whose instantiations render linguistic form to conceptual/semantic directed hypergraphs, and point out how its constraint-based concurrent architecture entails collaboration and interleaving so as to allow the definition and optimization of global quality measures.