An abstract for the book follows.. The model emphasizes the semantic, syntac- tic and lexical constraints that must be dealt with when establishing a relationship between meaning and for
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Laurence Danlos Laboratoire d'Automatique Documentaire et Linguistique
Universite Paris 7
2, Place Jussieur (Tour Centrale, 9 etage) F-75251 Paris Cedex 05, F R A N C E
This presentation was based on a book, T h e
L i n g u i s t i c B a s i s o f T e x t G e n e r a t i o n ,
recently published by Cambridge University
Press (Cambridge, England, 1987) in the series
Studies in Natural Language Processing spon-
sored by the Association for C o m p u t a t i o n a l Lin-
guistics An abstract for the book follows
A B S T R A C T This study presents an original and penetrat-
ing analysis of the complex problems surround-
ing the automatic generaton of natural language
text Laurence Danlos provides a valuable criti-
cal review of current research in this i m p o r t a n t
and increasingly active field, and goes on to
describe a new theoretical model t h a t is
thoroughly grounded in linguistic principles
The model emphasizes the semantic, syntac-
tic and lexical constraints that must be dealt
with when establishing a relationship between
meaning and form, and it is consideration of
such linguistic constraints t h a t determines
Danlos' generation algorithm The book con-
cludes with a description of a generation system
based on this algorithm which produces texts in
several domains and also a system for the syn-
thesis of spoken messages from semantic
representations
The book is a significant addition to the
literature on text generation~ and will be of par-
ticular interest to all computational linguists
and AI researchers who have wrestled with the
problem of vocabulary selection