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Author:   Manfred Stede
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   1999 ed.
Volume:   492
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.140kg
ISBN:  

9780792384199

ISBN 10:   0792384199
Pages:   219
Publication Date:   31 January 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 1.1 Natural language generation.- 1.2 Goals of this research.- 1.3 Overview of the book.- 2. Lexicalization in NLG.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 The nature of lexical items in NLP.- 2.3 Linking concepts to lexical items.- 2.4 Criteria for lexical choice.- 2.5 Placing lexicalization in the generation process.- 2.6 Conclusions: making progress on lexicalization.- 3. Classifying Lexical Variation.- 3.1 Intra-lingual paraphrases.- 3.2 Inter-lingual divergences.- 3.3 Divergences as paraphrases.- 4. Modelling the Domain.- 4.1 Building domain models for NLG.- 4.2 Knowledge representation in LOOM.- 4.3 Ontological categories.- 4.4 The domain model.- 5. Levels of Representation: Sitspec and Semspec.- 5.1 Finding appropriate representation levels in NLG.- 5.2 Linguistic ontology: adapting the ‘Upper Model’.- 5.3 SitSpecs.- 5.4 SemSpecs.- 6. Representing the Meaning of Words.- 6.1 Introduction: Lexical semantics.- 6.2 Denotation and covering.- 6.3 Partial SemSpecs.- 6.4 Connotation.- 6.5 Salience.- 7. Verb Alternations and Extensions.- 7.1 Background: verb alternations.- 7.2 Alternations as meaning extensions.- 7.3 Lexical rules for alternations and extensions.- 7.4 Extension rules for circumstances.- 7.5 Examples: lexical entries for verbs.- 7.6 Summary.- 8. A System Architecture for Multilingual Generation.- 8.1 Lexicalization with constraints and preferences.- 8.2 The computational problem.- 8.3 Architecture and algorithm.- 8.4 Implementation: MOOSE.- 8.5 Summary: lexicalization qua subsumption.- 9. Generating Paraphrases.- 9.1 Verbalizing states.- 9.2 Verbalizing activities.- 9.3 Verbalizing events.- 9.4 Solutions to legalization problems.- 10. From Sentences to Text.- 10.1 Text representation.- 10.2 Embedding MOOSE in a text generator.- 10.3 Example:technical documentation.- 11. Summary and Conclusions.- 11.1 Summary of the work.- 11.2 Comparison to related work.- 11.3 Directions for future research.- References.

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I recommend the book not only to researchers interested in text generation and in machine translation, but to everybody interested in the relationship between language-independent knowledge representation and language-specific ontologies... Stede's specific proposal is well defined and effective.' Computational Linguistics, 26: 2

'I recommend the book not only to researchers interested in text generation and in machine translation, but to everybody interested in the relationship between language-independent knowledge representation and language-specific ontologies... Stede's specific proposal is well defined and effective.' Computational Linguistics, 26:2

`I recommend the book not only to researchers interested in text generation and in machine translation, but to everybody interested in the relationship between language-independent knowledge representation and language-specific ontologies... Stede's specific proposal is well defined and effective.' Computational Linguistics, 26:2

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