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 ctober-Generating-Anaphoric-Expressions
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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      <p>\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      </p>\n      <p>R
 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      </p>\n      <p>In 
 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      </p>\n      <
 p>(1) Antonia walked towards the house. Suddenly, 
 THE DOOR opened.<br />\n        (2) Antonia likes 
 cake. She ALSO likes ice cream.\n      </p>\n    \
 n      <p>\n        For more information, please c
 ontact <a class="email">marx <span class="at">at</
 span> science.uva.nl</a>\n      </p>\n    
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