GNOME: Generating Nominal Expressions
Overview
GNOME is a joint project between the
Information Technology Research Institute
at the University of Brighton and the
Human Communications Research Centre
at the Universities of Edinburgh and Durham.
This project focusses on the specific task of generating nominal expressions within a text.
This is an area where achievements in NLG appear to lag behind those in parsing and
interpretation; for instance
there are well-known algorithms in the literature for resolving pronouns as part of the
interpretation of texts, but these results have not been systematically applied to the
generation task. Additionally, work on the generation of nominals
has not profited much from theoretical research in formal semantics
and psycholinguistics on the meaning, interpretation and production
of nominal expressions.
In the GNOME project, we are developing general algorithms
which will be informed by corpus analysis and
results of psycholinguistic studies
on how people produce and understand nominal expressions.
The resulting algorithms will be implemented in ITRI's
ICONOCLAST project and HCRC's
ILEX
system.
Duration
The project started in January 1998 and will run for two years.
Financial Support
This project is funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Participants
People involved in the project are:
Hua Cheng
Kees van Deemter
Renate Henschel
Rodger Kibble
Jamie Pearson
Massimo Poesio
Donia Scott
Rosemary Stevenson
Publications
Conference/workshop papers
Other documents
Events
Workshop on Generating Nominal Expressions
at
ESSLLI'99 in Utrecht,
August 9-13 1999, organised by Kees van Deemter and Rodger Kibble.
Contact
You can reach us by email at gnome@itri.bton.ac.uk
See also
HCRC's web page
for this project.
This project focusses on the specific task of generating nominal expressions within a text. This is an area where achievements in NLG appear to lag behind those in parsing and interpretation; for instance there are well-known algorithms in the literature for resolving pronouns as part of the interpretation of texts, but these results have not been systematically applied to the generation task. Additionally, work on the generation of nominals has not profited much from theoretical research in formal semantics and psycholinguistics on the meaning, interpretation and production of nominal expressions.
In the GNOME project, we are developing general algorithms which will be informed by corpus analysis and results of psycholinguistic studies on how people produce and understand nominal expressions.
The resulting algorithms will be implemented in ITRI's
ICONOCLAST project and HCRC's
ILEX
system.
| Hua Cheng | Kees van Deemter | Renate Henschel | Rodger Kibble | ||||||||||||
| Jamie Pearson | Massimo Poesio | Donia Scott | Rosemary Stevenson |
Other documents
See also HCRC's web page for this project.