Text Generation (Studies in Natural Language Processing) - Hardcover

McKeown, Kathleen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521301165 ISBN 13: 9780521301169

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1985

Synopsis

This book is concerned with the machine-based generation of natural language text and presents a formal analysis of problems, which in the main have previously only been approached descriptively. In the process of producing discourse, speakers and writers must decide what it is that they want to say and how to present it effectively. Kathleen McKeown's main concern is to identify and formalise principles of discourse so that they can be used in a computational process. The text generation theory she describes has been embodied in a computer program, TEXT, which, given a question, can produce a paragraph length response. An Appendix to the book provides examples of the TEXT system in operation.

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..."important reading for anyone either working in or just trying to keep up with natural language processing." Computational Linguistics

'... important reading for anyone either working in or just trying to keep up with natural language processing.' Computational Linguistics

.,."important reading for anyone either working in or just trying to keep up with natural language processing." Computational Linguistics

Book Description

Kathleen McKeown identifies and formalises principles of discourse so that they can be used in a computational process. The text generation theory she describes has been embodied in a computer program, TEXT, which, given a question, can produce a paragraph length response. An Appendix to the book provides examples of the TEXT system in operation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521301165
• ISBN 13: 9780521301169
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264