The generation of high-level structure for extended explanations

  • Authors:
  • David J. Mooney;Sandra Carberry;Kathleen F. McCoy

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware;University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware;University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware

  • Venue:
  • COLING '90 Proceedings of the 13th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

This paper analyzes the structural features of naturally-occurring extended explanations and argues that current generation methodologies are inadequate for determining high-level structure. It presents a computational model based on the hypothesis that high-level structure - composed of a unifying framework and its associated basic blocks - can be determined by bottom-up processes that attempt to satisfy speaker, listener, and compositional goals, after which top-down strategies can be used to organize the material about the selected framework.