On the role of linguistic descriptions of data in the building of natural language generation systems

A Ramos-Soto, A Bugarín, S Barro - Fuzzy Sets and Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper explores the current state of the task of generating easily understandable
information from data for people using natural language, which is currently addressed by …

Document structure

R Power, D Scott, N Bouayad-Agha - Computational Linguistics, 2003 - direct.mit.edu
We argue the case for abstract document structure as a separate descriptive level in the
analysis and generation of written texts. The purpose of this representation is to mediate …

Can neural generators for dialogue learn sentence planning and discourse structuring?

L Reed, S Oraby, M Walker - arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.03015, 2018 - arxiv.org
Responses in task-oriented dialogue systems often realize multiple propositions whose
ultimate form depends on the use of sentence planning and discourse structuring …

A reference architecture for natural language generation systems

C Mellish, D Scott, L Cahill, D Paiva… - Natural language …, 2006 - cambridge.org
We present the RAGS (Reference Architecture for Generation Systems) framework: a
specification of an abstract Natural Language Generation (NLG) system architecture to …

Evaluating topic-based representations for author profiling in social media

MA Álvarez-Carmona, AP López-Monroy… - Advances in Artificial …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The Author Profiling (AP) task aims to determine specific demographic
characteristics such as gender and age, by analyzing the language usage in groups of …

Empirically-based control of natural language generation

D Paiva, R Evans - Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting …, 2005 - research.brighton.ac.uk
In this paper we present a new approach to controlling the behaviour of a natural language
generation system by correlating internal decisions taken during free generation of a wide …

What is NLG?

R Evans, P Piwek, L Cahill - Proceedings of the Second …, 2002 - research.brighton.ac.uk
Giving an adequate general definition of the input to natural language generation (NLG),
and hence to NL G itself, is a notoriously difficult problem, practically, theoretically and even …

Generating sentence planning variations for story telling

SM Lukin, LI Reed, MA Walker - arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.08580, 2017 - arxiv.org
There has been a recent explosion in applications for dialogue interaction ranging from
direction-giving and tourist information to interactive story systems. Yet the natural language …

A narrative sentence planner and structurer for domain independent, parameterizable storytelling

SM Lukin, MA Walker - Dialogue & Discourse, 2019 - journals.uic.edu
Storytelling is an integral part of daily life and a key part of how we share information and
connect with others. The ability to use Natural Language Generation (NLG) to produce …

A framework for stylistically controlled generation

DS Paiva, R Evans - International Conference on Natural Language …, 2004 - Springer
In this paper we describe a framework for stylistic control of the generation process. The
approach correlates stylistic dimensions obtained from a corpus-based factor analysis with …