Abstract
Documents in a wide range of genres often contain references to their
own sections, pictures etc. We call such referring expressions instances of
Document Deixis. The present work focuses on the generation of Document
Deixis in the context of a particular kind of natural language generation system
in which these descriptions are not specified as part of the input, i.e., when it is
up to the system to decide whether a reference is called for and, if so, which
document entity it should refer to. We ask under what circumstances it is advantageous to describe domain objects in terms of the document parts where
they are mentioned (as in “the insulin described in section 2”). We report on an
experiment suggesting that such indirect descriptions are preferred by human
readers whenever they cause the generated descriptions to be shorter than they
would otherwise be.
own sections, pictures etc. We call such referring expressions instances of
Document Deixis. The present work focuses on the generation of Document
Deixis in the context of a particular kind of natural language generation system
in which these descriptions are not specified as part of the input, i.e., when it is
up to the system to decide whether a reference is called for and, if so, which
document entity it should refer to. We ask under what circumstances it is advantageous to describe domain objects in terms of the document parts where
they are mentioned (as in “the insulin described in section 2”). We report on an
experiment suggesting that such indirect descriptions are preferred by human
readers whenever they cause the generated descriptions to be shorter than they
would otherwise be.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Procs. of Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLING-2006) |
| Editors | Alexander Gelbukh |
| Place of Publication | Berlin Heidelberg |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Pages | 299-310 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-540-32206-1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3-540-32205-4, 3-540-32205-1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2006 |
| Event | Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics - Mexico City, Mexico Duration: 19 Feb 2006 → 25 Feb 2006 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
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| Publisher | Springer |
| Volume | 3878 |
| ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
| Conference | Seventh International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics |
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| Country/Territory | Mexico |
| City | Mexico City |
| Period | 19/02/06 → 25/02/06 |
Bibliographical note
This work was part of the PhD project of the first author and it has been supported bythe CNPq – Brazilian research Council
Keywords
- Generation of Referring Expressions. References to/via document parts.
- Folic Acid
- Regen Strategy
- Definite Description
- Incremental Algorithm
- Prefer Attribute