Incremental generation of plural descriptions: Similarity and partitioning

Albert Gatt; Kees Van Deemter

Incremental generation of plural descriptions: Similarity and partitioning

Albert Gatt, Kees Van Deemter

Computing Science

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Abstract

Approaches to plural reference generation emphasise descriptive brevity, but often lack empirical backing. This paper describes a corpus-based study of plural descriptions, and proposes a psycholinguisticallymotivated algorithm for plural reference generation. The descriptive strategy is based on partitioning and incorporates corpusderived heuristics. An exhaustive evaluation shows that the output closely matches human data.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP-CoNLL
Number of pages	10
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007) - Prague, Czech Republic Duration: 28 Jun 2007 → 30 Jun 2007

Conference

Conference	Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007)
Country/Territory	Czech Republic
City	Prague
Period	28/06/07 → 30/06/07

Keywords

natural language generation
generation of referring expressions
plurals
partitioning

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Gatt, A & Van Deemter, K 2007, Incremental generation of plural descriptions: Similarity and partitioning. in Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP-CoNLL. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007), Prague, Czech Republic, 28/06/07. <http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~kvdeemte/emnlp2007.pdf>

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