New Concepts in Natural Language Generation

Helmut Horacek works for the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and taught at Saarland University, Germany.Michael Zock is Emeritus Research Director of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Aix-Marseille University, France.

• Introduction Helmut Horacek and Michael Zock Part I. Content Planning1. Content Determination and Text Structuring: Two Interrelated Processes Denis Carcagno And Lidija Iordanskaja 2. Explanation Strategies for KADS-Based Expert Systems Michael SprengerPart II. Text Planning3. From Interclausal Relations To Discourse Structure - A Long Way Behind, A Long Way Ahead Eduard Hovy 4. Organising Discourse Structure Relations Using Metafunctions Elisabeth Maier and Eduard Hovy 5. From Constituent Planning To Text Planning Zuzana Krifka-Dobei and Hans-Joachim Novak Part III. Realization6. How a Systemic Functional Grammar Works: The Role of Realization in Realization Robin P. Fawcett, Gordon H. Tucker and Yuen Q. Lin 7. Head-Driven Bottom-Up Generation and Government and Binding: A Unified Perspective Fabio Pianesi Part IV. Systems8. Decision Making Throughout the Generation Process in The Systems WISBER And DIAMODHelmut Horacek 9. A Revision-Based Generation Architecture for Reporting Facts in Their Historical Context Jacques Robin Part V. Selected Topics10. The Initial Specifications for GenerationIntroduction: Helmut HoracekA. The Initial Specifications for Generation: Robert DaleB. 'Does Natural Language Generation Start From A Specification?': David D. McDonaldC. Notes on 'The Initial Specifications for Generation': Dietmar RosnerD. On the Generator Input of the Future: Eduard Hovy11. LexicalizationIntroduction: Ernst BuchbergerA. Is Content Generation A One-Shot Process Or A Cyclical Activity Of Gradual Refinement? The Case of Lexical Choice: Michael ZockB. Lexical Choice and Lexical Preferences: Ehud ReiterC. A Holistic View of Lexical Choice: Stephan BusemannD. Ontology and Lexical Choice: Hans-Joachim NovakIndex