Multilingual Resource Sharing Across Both Related and Unrelated Languages: An Implemented, Open-Source Framework for Practical Natural Language Generation

This article reports on our experience with developing multilingual grammar resources for natural language generation (NLG). We employ a strong notion of multilinguality: (i) Grammars for different languages share their overall organization, as well as those descriptions that reflect similarities be...

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Published in:Research on language and computation 2005-07, Vol.3 (2-3), p.191-219
Main Authors: Bateman, John A., Kruijff-Korbayová, Ivana, Kruijff, Geert-Jan
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Language:English
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Summary:This article reports on our experience with developing multilingual grammar resources for natural language generation (NLG). We employ a strong notion of multilinguality: (i) Grammars for different languages share their overall organization, as well as those descriptions that reflect similarities between languages & (ii) a single realization engine is used to generate with these grammars. This strong notion arises from the functionalist approach we adopt: we hypothesize that languages are likely to share communicative functions, despite possibly differing in how these functions are realized. We discuss the advantages of this view in the development of large-coverage generation grammars for a broad variety of languages. 2 Tables, 4 Figures, 67 References. Adapted from the source document
ISSN:1570-7075
1572-8706
DOI:10.1007/s11168-005-1298-9