Aspects of automated natural language generation. 6th international workshop on Natural language generation, Trento, Italy, April 5-7, 1992. Proceedings (Q1201983)

The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually. This book represents the proceedings of the 6th international workshop on natural language generation, Trento, Italy, April 1992. There are enclosed 17 selected papers, an invited paper (prof. Nadia Magnenat- Thalmann --- Univ. of Geneva, presenting a methodology of specifying, controlling, and synchronizing the temporal and spatial characteristics for \(3-D\) animation of facial expressions), and two panel discussions with the topics ``Multilinguality and Generation'', and ``Extending Language Generation to Multiple Media''. The 17 selected, high quality papers are grouped in four sections: The section of Generator System Architecture (4 papers) presents new integrated (language) generators, as well as integrating strategies for text planning. The section on Issues in Realization (14 papers) discusses such topics as language generating from the output of a parser, functional unification grammar top-down control, and the important problem of syntactic selection, (comparatively) studied in some important grammar or logic programming formalisms. Issues in Discourse Structures (5 papers) deals with rhetorical structure and discourse theory, dialog models, abductive and non-monotonic reasoning, incorporated into various text generators. The final section, Beyond Traditional Generation (4 papers) investigates not only Japanese and metaphor generation, also several multi-modal approaches to (incremental, parallel) generation of Dutch, German, or English. Well-known researchers and research centres such as universities of Carnegie Mellon, South California, Pennsylvania, Columbia, and others from USA. Edingburgh or Cambridge (U.K.), Saarbrücken, Bielefeld (Germany), Toulouse (France), Tokyo (Japan) etc. are deeply involved with significant practical and theoretical results in this dynamic and fundamental domain of natural language processing and understanding.