Abstract
Recently, the view of Natural Language Generation (nlg) as a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (csp) has seen something of a revival. The aim of this paper is to examine the theoretical issues that arise when nlg is viewed as a csp and to introduce a novel application of constraint-based nlg, i.e., the scripted dialogue. Scripted dialogue shares a number of crucial features with discourse, which make it possible to control the global properties of a computer-generated dialogue in the same way as those of a generated text. We review the dierent approaches to constraint-based generation that have been proposed in the literature and propose a new approach that is specifically suitable for the challenges posed by scripteddialogue generation.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 237-263 |
| Number of pages | 34 |
| Journal | Research on Language and Computation |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Bibliographical note
A paid open access option is available for this journal.Authors own final version only can be archived
Publisher's version/PDF cannot be used
On author's website or institutional repository
On funders designated website/repository after 12 months at the funders request or as a result of legal obligation
Published source must be acknowledged
Must link to publisher version
Set phrase to accompany link to published version (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com)
Articles in some journals can be made Open Access on payment of additional charge
Keywords
- natural language generation
- constraints
- scripted dialogue