Technical reports:
A Procedure for the Selection of Connectives: How Deep Is the Surface?
Michael Elhadad; Kathleen McKeown
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- Title:
- A Procedure for the Selection of Connectives: How Deep Is the Surface?
- Author(s):
-
Elhadad, Michael
McKeown, Kathleen - Date:
- 1989
- Type:
- Technical reports
- Department:
- Computer Science
- Permanent URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:12089
- Series:
- Columbia University Computer Science Technical Reports
- Part Number:
- CUCS-419-89
- Publisher:
- Department of Computer Science, Columbia University
- Publisher Location:
- New York
- Abstract:
- We present an implemented procedure to select an appropriate connective to link two propositions. Each connective is defined as a set of constraints between features of the propositions it connects. Our focus has been to identify pragmatic features that can be produced by a deep generator to provide a simple representation of connectives. Using these features, we can account for a variety of connective usages. We describe how a surface generator can produce complex sentences when given these features in input. The selection procedure is implemented as part of a large functional unification grammar.
- Subject(s):
- Computer science
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