A representation for complex and evolving data dependencies in generation

Authors:
C. Mellish;R. Evans;L. Cahill;C. Doran;D. Paiva;M. Reape;D. Scott;N. Tipper
Affiliations:
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK;University of Brighton, Brighton, UK;University of Brighton, Brighton, UK;University of Brighton, Brighton, UK;University of Brighton, Brighton, UK;University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK;University of Brighton, Brighton, UK;University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
Venue:
ANLC '00 Proceedings of the sixth conference on Applied natural language processing
Year:
2000

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Abstract

This paper introduces an approach to representing the kinds of information that components in a natural language generation (NLG) system will need to communicate to one another. This information may be partial, may involve more than one level of analysis and may need to include information about the history of a derivation. We present a general representation scheme capable of handling these cases. In addition, we make a proposal for organising intermodule communication in an NLG system by having a central server for this information. We have validated the approach by a reanalysis of an existing NLG system and through a full implementation of a runnable specification.