2007 Presentations (Communicative Events)

Sentence Generation as a Planning Problem

Koller, Alexander; Stone, Matthew

In this paper, we translate sentence generation from TAG grammars with semantic and pragmatic information into a planning problem by encoding the contribution of each word declaratively and explicitly. This allows us to tap into the recent performance improvements in off-the-shelf planners. It also opens up new perspectives on referring expression generation and the relationship between language and action.