Cooking up referring expressions

  • Authors:
  • Robert Dale

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Venue:
  • ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

This paper describes the referring expression generation mechanisms used in EPICURE, a computer program which produces natural language descriptions of cookery recipes. Major features of the system include: an underlying ontology which permits the representation of non-singular entities; a notion of discriminatory power, to determine what properties should be used in a description; and a PATR-like unification grammar to produce surface linguistic strings.