Abstract
Abstract. This discussion paper describes a sequence of experiments
with human subjects aimed at nding out how an nlg system should
choose between the dierent forms of a gradable adjective. This case
study highlights some general questions that one faces when trying to
base nlg systems on empirical evidence: one question is what task to set
a subject so as to obtain the most useful information about that subject,
another question has to do with dierences between subjects.
with human subjects aimed at nding out how an nlg system should
choose between the dierent forms of a gradable adjective. This case
study highlights some general questions that one faces when trying to
base nlg systems on empirical evidence: one question is what task to set
a subject so as to obtain the most useful information about that subject,
another question has to do with dierences between subjects.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Proc. of 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Generation |
| Editors | Anja Belz, Roger Evans, Paul Piwek |
| Place of Publication | Berlin and Heidelberg |
| Publisher | Springer Lecture Notes |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 |
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Keywords
- Vague adjectives.
- Experiments with human subjects.
Cite this
van Deemter, K. (2004). Finetuning an NLG system through experiments with human subjects: the case of vague descriptions. In A. Belz, R. Evans, & P. Piwek (Eds.), Proc. of 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Generation Springer Lecture Notes. http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~kvdeemte/vague/vDeemter-inlg04.pdf