| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L51126/01 |
| Title: |
GENERAL-PURPOSE TOOLS FOR GENERATING NOMINAL EXPRESSIONS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Poesio, Professor M |
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| Department: |
Human Communication Research Centre |
| Organisation: |
University of Edinburgh |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 January 1998 |
Ends: |
30 April 2000 |
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197,429
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Human Communication in ICT |
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Generation is the area of natural language processing most likely to result in practical applications in the short to medium term. One of the most urgent problems is to develop existing techniques for generating nominal expressions, since their choice greatly affects the readability of a text: definite descriptions that refer to knowledge the reader does not have, repeated uses of the same proper name, and ambiguous or misleading uses of pronouns all make a text clumsier and less felicitous. We propose to develop general purpose tools for generating nominal expressions that can be added to existing tools for surface generation. We will consider issues that have not yet been studied in detail, such as the generation of proper names and the effect of rhetorical structure on anaphoric expressions. Our approach will be novel in two respects: we propose to work in close contact with existing projects to develop practical text generation systems, and we propose to co-ordinate this project with experimental work on comprehension and generation of nominal expressions funded by HCRC.
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