Experimenting with the interaction between aggregation and text structuring
Hua Nong Cheng · 2000
In natural language generation, different gener- ation tasks often interact with each other in a complex way, which is hard to capture in the pipeline architecture described by Reiter (Reiter, 1994). This paper focuses on the interaction between a specific type of aggregation and text planning, in particular, maintaining local coherence, and tries to explore what preferences exist among the factors related to the two tasks. The evaluation result shows that it is these preferences that decide the quality of the generated text and capturing them properly in a genera- tion system could lead to coherent text.