In Proc. NLPRS '97, Phuket, Thailand

Breaking Down Barriers:
The Mikrokosmos Generator

Abstract:

We argue that the modularization of text generation into separate tasks, as currently practiced, sets up unneeded barriers to the generation task. We propose a new modularity based on natural linguistic phenomena and overview how it is implemented in the Mikrokosmos text generator.

• Introduction
• The Great Barrier Reek
• Linguistically- and Ontologically-based Modularization
  • Types of Lexicon Entries
    • Objects
    • Events
    • Properties
  • Developing the options
  • Linguistically-based preferences
    • Options at the Lexicon Level
    • Intra-sentential Preferences
    • Inter-sentential Preferences
• Efficient Processing
• Summary
• References
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