Research in Knowledge Delivery

Abstract

This report summarizes the research and development work done over four years toward the goal of automatically planning and generating fluent multisentence paragraphs of English text. While ensuring that the grammar is adequate to support the parsing of English text. The work consisted of three principal components, namely text structuring, parsing, and knowledge representation. A theory of texture structure, and an accompanying text planner, were developed and successfully used to generate paragraphs in three different application domains. To ensure bidirectionality, an existing prototype parser was adapted and refined and tested on a functional grammar in to investigate the invertibility of the grammar. Knowledge representation work focused on linking the generator with arbitrary applications by developing a very general underlying taxonomy of conceptual entities which can be linked with various specific domain-related taxonomies. (kr)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 28, 1990
Accession Number
ADA219920

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  • Eduard H. Hovy

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

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  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Science
  • Command And Control
  • Computational Linguistics
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Expert Systems
  • Grammars
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Lisp Programming Language
  • Natural Languages
  • Psychology

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