On the role of old information in generating readable text: a psychological and computational definition of "old" and "new" information in the NOSVO system

Authors:
Mark Vincent LaPolla
Affiliations:
University of Texas, at Austin, Austin, Tx
Venue:
COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Year:
1988

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Abstract

NOSVO is a Natural Language Generation postprocessor which is sensitive to old/new information contrasts. We believe that generating old information first establishes cohesion in text promoting readability. This paper describes the NOSVO system in detail and the motivations for building it. We also provide a phychological and computational definition of "old" and "new" information.