Charting the potential of description logic for the generation of referring expressions

Yuan Ren; Kees van Deemter; Jeff Pan

Charting the potential of description logic for the generation of referring expressions

Yuan Ren, Kees van Deemter, Jeff Pan

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Abstract

The generation of referring expressions (GRE), an important subtask of Natural Language Generation (NLG) is to generate phrases that uniquely identify domain entities. Until recently, many GRE algorithms were developed using only simple formalisms, which were taylor made for the task. Following the fast development of ontology-based systems, reinterpretations of GRE in terms of description logic (DL) have recently started to be studied. However, the expressive power of these DL-based algorithms is still limited, not exceeding that of older GRE approaches. In this paper, we propose a DL-based approach to GRE that exploits the full power of OWL2. Unlike existing approaches, the potential of reasoning in GRE is explored.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	INLG 2010 - Proceedings of the Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference, July 7-9, 2010, Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland.
Editors	John D Kelleher, Brian Macnamee, Ielka van der Sluis, Anja Belz, Albert Gatt, Alexander Koller
Publisher	Association for Computer Linguistics
Pages	115-124
Number of pages	10
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference - Trim, County Meath, Ireland Duration: 7 Jul 2010 → 9 Jul 2010

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Conference	Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Trim, County Meath
Period	7/07/10 → 9/07/10

Keywords

generation of referring expressions
description logic

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Ren, Y., van Deemter, K., & Pan, J. (2010). Charting the potential of description logic for the generation of referring expressions. In J. D. Kelleher, B. Macnamee, I. van der Sluis, A. Belz, A. Gatt, & A. Koller (Eds.), INLG 2010 - Proceedings of the Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference, July 7-9, 2010, Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland. (pp. 115-124). Association for Computer Linguistics. http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/k.vdeemter/pages/INLG2010Yuan.pdf

Charting the potential of description logic for the generation of referring expressions. / Ren, Yuan; van Deemter, Kees; Pan, Jeff.
INLG 2010 - Proceedings of the Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference, July 7-9, 2010, Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland. . ed. / John D Kelleher; Brian Macnamee; Ielka van der Sluis; Anja Belz; Albert Gatt; Alexander Koller. Association for Computer Linguistics, 2010. p. 115-124.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Published conference contribution

Ren, Y, van Deemter, K & Pan, J 2010, Charting the potential of description logic for the generation of referring expressions. in JD Kelleher, B Macnamee, I van der Sluis, A Belz, A Gatt & A Koller (eds), INLG 2010 - Proceedings of the Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference, July 7-9, 2010, Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland. . Association for Computer Linguistics, pp. 115-124, Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference, Trim, County Meath, Ireland, 7/07/10. <http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/k.vdeemter/pages/INLG2010Yuan.pdf>

Ren Y, van Deemter K, Pan J. Charting the potential of description logic for the generation of referring expressions. In Kelleher JD, Macnamee B, van der Sluis I, Belz A, Gatt A, Koller A, editors, INLG 2010 - Proceedings of the Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference, July 7-9, 2010, Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland. . Association for Computer Linguistics. 2010. p. 115-124

Ren, Yuan ; van Deemter, Kees ; Pan, Jeff. / Charting the potential of description logic for the generation of referring expressions. INLG 2010 - Proceedings of the Sixth International Natural Language Generation Conference, July 7-9, 2010, Trim, Co. Meath, Ireland. . editor / John D Kelleher ; Brian Macnamee ; Ielka van der Sluis ; Anja Belz ; Albert Gatt ; Alexander Koller. Association for Computer Linguistics, 2010. pp. 115-124

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