BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2004/newsitem/785/29-O ctober-Generating-Anaphoric-Expressions DTSTAMP:20041026T000000 SUMMARY:29 October, Generating Anaphoric Expressio ns ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Kristina Striegnitz (Saarlan d University) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20041029T133000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20041029T000000 LOCATION:Room F009, Kruislaan 403, Amsterdam DESCRIPTION:Discourse anaphora are important devic es for achieving cohesion in natural language text s. It is, therefore, important that natural langua ge generation systems are able to correctly use th e anaphoric devices provided by natural languages in order generate fluent and natural sounding text s. Research in natural language generation has c oncentrated on one specific class of anaphoric exp ressions, namely, definite noun phrases referring to a previously mentioned entity. Anaphora that es tablish a link to an expression which is not co-re ferent with the anaphoric expression and non-nomin al anaphora have not been treated, so far. In my talk, I will present the standard approaches to t he generation of co-referential noun phrases and w ill then show how to extend them to other kinds of anaphoric expressions. In particular, I will disc uss the generation of bridging descriptions (as in 1) and of additive particles (as in 2). (1) Ant onia walked towards the house. Suddenly, THE DOOR opened. (2) Antonia likes cake. She ALSO likes ic e cream. For more information, please contact m arx at science.uva.nl X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n
\n Discourse anaphora are important devices for achie ving cohesion in\n natural language texts. It is, therefore, important that natural\n language generation systems are able to correctly use the anaphoric\n devices provided by nat ural languages in order generate fluent and\n natural sounding texts.\n
\nR esearch in natural language generation has concent rated on one\n specific class of anaphoric expressions, namely, definite noun phrases\n referring to a previously mentioned entity. Anap hora that establish a \n link to an express ion which is not co-referent with the anaphoric \n expression and non-nominal anaphora have n ot been treated, so far.\n
\nIn my talk, I will present the standard approaches to the\n generation of co-referential noun ph rases and will then show how to\n extend th em to other kinds of anaphoric expressions. In par ticular, \n I will discuss the generation o f bridging descriptions (as in 1)\n and of additive particles (as in 2).\n
\n < p>(1) Antonia walked towards the house. Suddenly, THE DOOR opened.\n For more information, please c ontact marx at span> science.uva.nl\n
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