Survey of the state of the art in natural language generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluation

A Gatt, E Krahmer - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2018 - jair.org
This paper surveys the current state of the art in Natural Language Generation (NLG),
defined as the task of generating text or speech from non-linguistic input. A survey of NLG is …

[HTML][HTML] Decoding methods in neural language generation: a survey

S Zarrieß, H Voigt, S Schüz - Information, 2021 - mdpi.com
Neural encoder-decoder models for language generation can be trained to predict words
directly from linguistic or non-linguistic inputs. When generating with these so-called end-to …

[PDF][PDF] Generation from abstract meaning representation using tree transducers

J Flanigan, C Dyer, NA Smith… - Proceedings of the 2016 …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
Abstract Language generation from purely semantic representations is a challenging task.
This paper addresses generating English from the Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) …

[PDF][PDF] The first surface realisation shared task: Overview and evaluation results

A Belz, M White, D Espinosa, E Kow… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - aclanthology.org
Abstract The Surface Realisation (SR) Task was a new task at Generation Challenges 2011,
and had two tracks:(1) Shallow: map** from shallow input representations to realisations; …

AMR-to-text generation as a Traveling Salesman Problem

L Song, Y Zhang, X Peng, Z Wang, D Gildea - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
The task of AMR-to-text generation is to generate grammatical text that sustains the semantic
meaning for a given AMR graph. We at-tack the task by first partitioning the AMR graph into …

Facilitating information extraction via semantic abstraction

CT Ho, B Kimelfeld, Y Li, S Vaithyanathan - US Patent 10,019,437, 2018 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method includes receiving one or more natural language dependency
parse trees as input. A hardware processor is used for processing the dependency parse …

Dependency annotation choices: Assessing theoretical and practical issues of universal dependencies

K Gerdes, S Kahane - LAW X (2016) The 10th Linguistic Annotation …, 2016 - shs.hal.science
This article attempts to place dependency annotation options on a solid theoretical and
applied footing. By verifying the validity of some basic choices of the current dependency …

Making effective use of healthcare data using data-to-text technology

S Pauws, A Gatt, E Krahmer, E Reiter - Data science for healthcare …, 2019 - Springer
Healthcare organizations are in a continuous effort to improve health outcomes, reduce
costs, and enhance patient experience of care. Data is essential to measure and help …

[PDF][PDF] Training a natural language generator from unaligned data

O Dušek, F Jurcicek - Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of …, 2015 - aclanthology.org
We present a novel syntax-based natural language generation system that is trainable from
unaligned pairs of input meaning representations and output sentences. It is divided into …

Neural generation for Czech: Data and baselines

O Dušek, F Jurčíček - arxiv preprint arxiv:1910.05298, 2019 - arxiv.org
We present the first dataset targeted at end-to-end NLG in Czech in the restaurant domain,
along with several strong baseline models using the sequence-to-sequence approach …