Towards generating text from discourse representation structures

  • Authors:
  • Valerio Basile;Johan Bos

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Groningen;University of Groningen

  • Venue:
  • ENLG '11 Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We argue that Discourse Representation Structures form a suitable level of language-neutral meaning representation for micro planning and surface realisation. DRSs can be viewed as the output of macro planning, and form the rough plan and structure for generating a text. We present the first ideas of building a large DRS corpus that enables the development of broad-coverage, robust text generators. A DRS-based generator imposes various challenges on micro-planning and surface realisation, including generating referring expressions, lexicalisation and aggregation.