Natural Language Generation : New Results in Artificial Intelligence, Psychology and Linguistics

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Some Pragmatic Decision Criteria in Generation....Pages 3-17
How to Appear to be Conforming to the ‘Maxims’ Even if You Prefer to Violate them....Pages 19-41
Contextual Effects on Responses to Misconceptions....Pages 43-54
Generating Understandable Explanatory Sentences....Pages 55-62
Toward a Plan-Based Theory of Referring Actions....Pages 63-70
Generating Referring Expressions and Pointing Gestures....Pages 71-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
Rhetorical Structure Theory: Description and Construction of Text Structures....Pages 85-95
Discourse Strategies for Describing Complex Physical Objects....Pages 97-115
Strategies for Generating Coherent Descriptions of Object Movements in Street Scenes....Pages 117-132
The Automated News Agency: SEMTEX — A Text Generator for German....Pages 133-148
A Connectionist Approach to the Generation of Abstracts....Pages 149-156
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Factors Contributing to Efficiency in Natural Language Generation....Pages 159-181
Reviewing as a Component of the Text Generation Process....Pages 183-190
A French and English Syntactic Component for Generation....Pages 191-218
King: A Knowledge-Intensive Natural Language Generator....Pages 219-230
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
The Relevance of Tree Adjoining Grammar to Generation....Pages 233-252
Notes on the Organization of the Environment of a Text Generation Grammar....Pages 253-278
A Formal Model of Systemic Grammar....Pages 279-299
Generating Answers from a Linguistically Coded Knowledge Base....Pages 301-314
A Computer Model of Functional Grammar....Pages 315-331
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Utterance Generation from Semantic Representations Augmented with Pragmatic Information....Pages 333-348
Front Matter....Pages 349-349
Exploring Levels of Processing in Sentence Production....Pages 351-363
Incremental Sentence Production, Self-Correction and Coordination....Pages 365-376
A Theory of Grammatical Impairment in Aphasia....Pages 377-391
Front Matter....Pages 393-393
Stages of Lexical Access....Pages 395-404
Where do Phrases Come from: Some Preliminary Experiments in Connectionist Phrase Generation....Pages 405-421
The Generation of Tense....Pages 423-440
Perceptual Factors and Word Order in Event Descriptions....Pages 441-451
Metacomments in Text Generation....Pages 453-461
Back Matter....Pages 463-466