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A Formal Semantics for Generating and Editing Plurals (2000)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Piwek, Paul |
| Description | Proceedings of COLING 2000, Saarbruecken |
| Abstract | We present a formal semantics for an objectoriented formalism which allows for the representation of plural objects (such as `Three N', `Most of the N', `Some N',...). The semantics is given in terms of a mapping to a variant of Discourse Representation Theory. It is motivated by its suitability for natural language generation and interactive editing of the representations. 1 Introduction A natural language generator typically generates a noun phrase from a representation consisting of an object with one or more attributes (cf. Reiter & Dale, 2000). Usually this representation is supplemented with information concerning the context in which the noun phrase has to be realized (e.g., the set of distractors, whether the object is in focus, etc.). For instance, the EPICURE system (Dale, 1992) deals with reference to plural objects by having the following three attributes on physical objects: structure, whose value can be either a set or individual, cardinality which in case of a set rec... |
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| Publisher Date | 2000-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Set Rec Objectoriented Formalism Natural Language Generator Interactive Editing Editing Plural Plural Object Representation Consisting Noun Phrase Formal Semantics Natural Language Generation Physical Object Epicure System Discourse Representation Theory Reiter Dale |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Proceeding |
