TY  - THES
T1  - Generating Anaphoric Expressions : Contextual Reasoning in Sentence Planning
A1  - Striegnitz,Kristina
Y1  - 2005/11/14
N2  - This thesis investigates the contextual reasoning involved in the production of anaphoric expressions in natural language generation systems. More specifically, I propose generation strategies for two types of discourse anaphora which have not been treated in generation before: bridging descriptions and additive particles. To this end the contextual conditions that govern the use of these expressions have to be formalized. The formalization that I propose is based on notions from linguistics and extends previous approaches to the generation of co-referential anaphora. I then specify the reasoning tasks that have to be carried out in order to check the contextual conditions. I describe how they can be implemented using a state-of-the-art reasoning system for description logics, and I compare my proposal to alternative approaches using other kinds of reasoning tools. Finally, I describe an experimental implementation of the proposed approach.
KW  - Linguistische Datenverarbeitung
KW  - Sprachverarbeitung
KW  - Automatische Sprachproduktion
KW  - Anapher <Syntax>
KW  - Semantik
KW  - Pragmatik
CY  - Saarbrücken
PB  - Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek
AD  - Postfach 151141, 66041 Saarbrücken
UR  - http://scidok.sulb.uni-saarland.de/volltexte/2005/481
ER  -