Lexical Choice

This paper attempts to develop a theory of heuristics or preferences that can be shared be- tween understanding and generation systems. We first develop a formal analysis of preferences and …...

This paper presents a partial solution to a com- ponent of the problem of lexical choice: choos- ing the synonym most typical, or expected, in context. We apply a new …...

A lexicon is an essential component in a gener- ation system but few efforts have been made to buiht a rich, large-scale lexicon and make it reusable for different generation …...

. Our research aims at developing a system that paraphrases written language text to spoken language style. In such a system, it is important to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate …...

This paper investigates novel methods for in- corporating syntactic information in proba- bilistic latent variable models of lexical choice and contextual similarity. The resulting mod- els capture the effects of …...

AbstractWe present experiments that show the influence of native language on lexical choice when producing text in another language – in this particular case English. We start from the premise …...

In Natural Language Generation (NLG), Referring Expression Generation (REG) lexical choice is the subtask that provides words to express a given input meaning representation. Since lexical choices made in real …...

AbstractThis paper presents our work in long and short form choice, a significant question of lexical choice, which plays an important role in many Natural Language Understanding tasks. Long and …...

AbstractExisting models for data-to-text tasks generate fluent but sometimes incorrect sentences e.g., “Nikkei gains” is generated when “Nikkei drops” is expected. We investigate models trained on contrastive examples i.e., incorrect …...