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By Regina Barzilay (auth.), Emiel Krahmer, Mariët Theune (eds.)

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ISBN-13: 9783642155727

Natural language iteration (NLG) is a subfield of usual language processing (NLP) that's usually characterised because the research of immediately changing non-linguistic representations (e.g., from databases or different wisdom assets) into coherent usual language textual content. lately the sphere has developed considerably. probably crucial new improvement is the present emphasis on data-oriented equipment and empirical assessment. development in comparable components similar to computing device translation, discussion procedure layout and automated textual content summarization and the ensuing knowledge of the significance of language iteration, the expanding availability of appropriate corpora lately, and the association of shared initiatives for NLG, the place diversified groups of researchers improve and assessment their algorithms on a shared, held out info set have had a substantial effect at the box, and this e-book deals the 1st entire review of modern empirically orientated NLG research.

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The alignment of answers to question types as a semantic role labelling task can also employ the same method [28]. Our generation approach is also strongly related to work which constructs symbolic semantic structures via an assignment process in order to provide surface realisers with input [33]. Our approach differs in that we do not begin with a fixed set of semantic labels. Additionally, our end goal is a dependency tree that encodes word precedence order, bypassing the surface realisation stage.

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We tested the performance of the approaches on the general task of string regeneration, a purely language modelling task. We found a significant improvement in performance when using a spanning tree algorithm instead of an n-gram based generator to generate sentences, as measured by BLEU. We conclude that global search algorithms, like the AB spanning tree algorithm, improve upon the grammaticality of the candidate sentence, as compared to search algorithms that optimise local constraints. We also found that the Assignment-Based algorithm offered performance improvements over a standard spanning tree algorithm.

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