Multilinguality in a text generation system for three Slavic languages

Authors:
Geert-Jan Kruijff;Elke Teich;John Bateman;Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová;Hana Skoumalová;Serge Sharoff;Lena Sokolova;Tony Hartley;Kamenka Staykova;Jiří Hana
Affiliations:
Charles University, Prague;University of the Saarland;University of Bremen;Charles University, Prague;Charles University, Prague;RRIAI, Moscow;RRIAI, Moscow;University of Brighton;IIT, BAS, Sofia;Charles University, Prague
Venue:
COLING '00 Proceedings of the 18th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Year:
2000

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Abstract

This paper describes a multilingual text generation system in the domain of CAD/CAM software instructions for Bulgarian, Czech and Russian. Starting from a language-independent semantic representation, the system drafts natural, continuous text as typically found in software manuals. The core modules for strategic and tactical generation are implemented using the KPML platform for linguistic resource development and generation. Prominent characteristics of the approach implemented are a treatment of multilinguality that makes maximal use of the commonalities between languages while also accounting for their differences and a common representational strategy for both text planning and sentence generation.