Evaluating automatic extraction of rules for sentence plan construction
Amanda J. Stent, Martín Molina · 2009
The freely available SPaRKy sentence planner uses hand-written weighted rules for sentence plan construction, and a useror domain-specific second-stage ranker for sentence plan selection.However, coming up with sentence plan construction rules for a new domain can be difficult.In this paper, we automatically extract sentence plan construction rules from the RST-DT corpus.In our rules, we use only domainindependent features that are available to a sentence planner at runtime.We evaluate these rules, and outline ways in which they can be used for sentence planning.We have integrated them into a revised version of SPaRKy.