20.1707, Books: Computational Ling: Danlos

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Subject: The Linguistic Basis of Text Generation: Danlos
 

	
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Title: The Linguistic Basis of Text Generation 
Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: Laurence Danlos

Paperback: ISBN:  9780521108492 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 17.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9780521108492 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 32.99


Abstract:

This study presents an original and penetrating analysis of the complex
problems surrounding the automatic generation of natural language text.
Laurence Danlos provides a valuable critical review of research in this
important and increasingly active field and goes on to describe a
theoretical model that is thoroughly grounded in linguistic principles. The
model emphasises the semantic, syntactic and lexical constraints that must
be dealt with when establishing a relationship between meaning and form and
it is consideration of such linguistic constraints that determines Danlos'
generation algorithm. The book concludes with a description of a generation
system based on this algorithm which produces texts in several domains and
also a system for the synthesis of spoken messages from semantic
representation. The book is a significant addition to the literature on
text generation and will be of particular interest to all computational
linguists and AI researchers who have wrestled with the problem of
vocabulary selection. 



Foreword; 
Acknowledgements; 
Author's note; Introduction; 
1. Introductory example: production of error messages; 
2. Automatic generation: an overview; 
3. The linguistic basis of a generation system; 
4. Discourse grammar; 
5. Applications of the model; 
6. Conclusion; 
Appendix; 
Notes; 
Bibliography; 
Index. 


Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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