SimpleNLG-ZH: a Linguistic Realisation Engine for Mandarin
Guanyi Chen, Kees van Deemter, Chenghua Lin · 2018
We introduce SimpleNLG-ZH, a realisation engine for Mandarin that follows the software design paradigm of SimpleNLG (Gatt and Reiter, 2009).We explain the core grammar (morphology and syntax) and the lexicon of SimpleNLG-ZH, which is very different from English and other languages for which SimpleNLG engines have been built.The system was evaluated by regenerating expressions from a body of test sentences and a corpus of humanauthored expressions.Human evaluation was conducted to estimate the quality of regenerated sentences.