A survey of research on text simplification

A Siddharthan - ITL-International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2014 - jbe-platform.com
Text simplification, defined narrowly, is the process of reducing the linguistic complexity of a
text, while still retaining the original information and meaning. More broadly, text …

[PDF][PDF] Smatch: an evaluation metric for semantic feature structures

S Cai, K Knight - Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the …, 2013 - aclanthology.org
The evaluation of whole-sentence semantic structures plays an important role in semantic
parsing and large-scale semantic structure annotation. However, there is no widely-used …

[PDF][PDF] The first surface realisation shared task: Overview and evaluation results

A Belz, M White, D Espinosa, E Kow… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - aclanthology.org
Abstract The Surface Realisation (SR) Task was a new task at Generation Challenges 2011,
and had two tracks:(1) Shallow: mapping from shallow input representations to realisations; …

Automatic factual question generation from text

M Heilman - 2011 - search.proquest.com
Texts with potential educational value are becoming available through the Internet (eg,
Wikipedia, news services). However, using these new tests in classrooms introduces many …

[PDF][PDF] Comparing automatic and human evaluation of NLG systems

A Belz, E Reiter - 11th conference of the european chapter of the …, 2006 - aclanthology.org
We consider the evaluation problem in Natural Language Generation (NLG) and present
results for evaluating several NLG systems with similar functionality, including a knowledge …

An investigation into the validity of some metrics for automatically evaluating natural language generation systems

E Reiter, A Belz - Computational Linguistics, 2009 - direct.mit.edu
There is growing interest in using automatically computed corpus-based evaluation metrics
to evaluate Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems, because these are often …

Sentence realization model for a natural language generation system

S Corston-Oliver, M Gamon, E Ringger… - US Patent …, 2009 - Google Patents
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Controlling user perceptions of linguistic style: Trainable generation of personality traits

F Mairesse, MA Walker - Computational Linguistics, 2011 - direct.mit.edu
Recent work in natural language generation has begun to take linguistic variation into
account, developing algorithms that are capable of modifying the system's linguistic style …

Towards personality-based user adaptation: psychologically informed stylistic language generation

F Mairesse, MA Walker - User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 2010 - Springer
Conversation is an essential component of social behavior, one of the primary means by
which humans express intentions, beliefs, emotions, attitudes and personality. Thus the …

Evaluating evaluation methods for generation in the presence of variation

A Stent, M Marge, M Singhai - International conference on intelligent text …, 2005 - Springer
Recent years have seen increasing interest in automatic metrics for the evaluation of
generation systems. When a system can generate syntactic variation, automatic evaluation …