Incremental Query Generation
Laura Perez-Beltrachini, Claire Gardent, Enrico Franconi · 2014
We present a natural language genera-tion system which supports the incremen-tal specification of ontology-based queries in natural language. Our contribution is two fold. First, we introduce a chart based surface realisation algorithm which supports the kind of incremental process-ing required by ontology-based querying. Crucially, this algorithm avoids confusing the end user by preserving a consistent ordering of the query elements through-out the incremental query formulation pro-cess. Second, we show that grammar based surface realisation better supports the generation of fluent, natural sounding queries than previous template-based ap-proaches. 1