Integrating a large-scale, reusable lexicon with a natural language generator

Hongyan Jing, Yael Dahan Netzer, Michael Elhadad, Kathleen R. McKeown

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Abstract

This paper presents the integration of a large-scale, reusable lexicon for generation with the FUF/SURGE unification-based syntactic realizer. The lexicon was combined from multiple existing resources in a semi-automatic process. The integration is a multi-step unification process. This integration allows the reuse of lexical, syntactic, and semantic knowledge encoded in the lexicon in the development of lexical chooser module in a generation system. The lexicon also brings other benefits to a generation system: for example, the ability to generate many lexical and syntactic paraphrases and the ability to avoid non-grammatical output.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationINLG 2000 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Natural Language Generation
EditorsMichael Elhadad
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages209-216
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9659029608, 9789659029600
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2000
Event1st International Conference on Natural Language Generation, INLG 2000 - Mitzpe Ramon, Israel
Duration: 12 Jun 200016 Jun 2000

Publication series

NameINLG 2000 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Natural Language Generation

Conference

Conference1st International Conference on Natural Language Generation, INLG 2000
Country/TerritoryIsrael
CityMitzpe Ramon
Period12/06/0016/06/00

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Software
  • Linguistics and Language

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