Fluency and completeness in instance-based natural language generation

  • Authors:
  • Sebastian Varges

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Edinburgh

  • Venue:
  • COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

A fundamental assumption underlying candidate ranking in corpus-based approaches to Natural Language Generation is the idea that in order to be fluent the output should be as similar to a (human-authored) corpus as possible. However, the goal of maximizing fluency can conflict with other goals, like conveying the maximal amount of input and being faithful. We employ an instance-based sentence generation system to investigate how the right balance between the different goals can be struck and show empirical results supporting our proposals.