Large Scale Language Independent Generation Using Thematic Hierarchies

Abstract

This paper describes a large-scale language-independent evaluation of the use of Thematic Hierardies in natural language generation. We translate from a corpus of sentences reflecting the full variety of behavior of Levin-based verb classes. The corpus is used as input to a generation system that utilizes the same thematic hierarchy for realizing relative argument surface positions in two languages; English and Spanish. The output was manually evaluated by English and Spanish speakers. The contributions of this work include: (1) an improved thematic hierarchy over an earlier implementation; (2) a large-scale evaluation of the use of thematic hierarchies in two languages; (3) an implementation of a language independent module for natural language generation; and (4) the creation of a single tool for incremental development of multilingual lexicons.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA458758

Entities

People

  • Bonnie J. Dorr
  • Nizar Habash

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

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  • Abstracts
  • Classification
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Hierarchies
  • Information Operations
  • Language
  • Natural Languages
  • Nomenclature
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Universities
  • Words (Language)

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