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De-Constraining Text Generation
Stephen Beale, Sergei Nirenburg, Evelyne Viegas
and Leo
Wanner§
Abstract:
We argue that the current, predominantly task-oriented, approaches to
modularizing text generation, while plausible and useful conceptually, set up
spurious conceptual and operational constraints. We propose a data-driven
approach to modularization and illustrate how it eliminates the previously
ubiquitous constraints on combination of evidence across modules and on
control. We also briefly overview the constraint-based control architecture that
enables such an approach and facilitates near linear-time processing with
realistic texts.
Steve Beale
Tue Feb 10 13:17:54 MST 1998