Greg Detre
@14:30 on Friday, November 01, 2002
in
generation, the target is clear, but the source is nebulous (opposite of
understanding)
�language understanding is like counting from one to infinity; language
geneation is like counting from infinity to one� (Wilks(???))
he�s going to talk about tactical (rather than strategic) generation
understanding
managing hypotheses about what you�ve got
local and global ambiguity
generation
managing choices
people are very good at accommodation, that is, figuring out what context two incongruous juxtaposed sentences might make sense
rhetorical relations
elaboration
contrast
condition
purpose
sequence
result
problem of logical form equivalence
frog met toad ^ it�s raining or it�s not raining
Dale & Rider � Text Generation
Grosz 288 discourse analysis
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