Controlling lexical substitution in computer text generation

Authors:
Robert Granville
Affiliations:
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge. Massachusetts
Venue:
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
1984

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Abstract

This report describes Paul, a computer text generation system designed to create cohesive text through the use of lexical substitutions. Specifically, this system is designed to deterministically choose between pronominalization, superordinate substitution, and definite noun phrase reiteration. The system identifies a strength of antecedence recovery for each of the lexical substitutions, and matches them against the strength of potential antecedence of each element in the text to select the proper substitutions for these elements.