Lecture: Natural Language Generation

Summer term 2019

Lecturer: Helmut Horacek

Time and place: Wednesday 16-18 room 001, bldg. E1.7

Begin: 10.4.

Attention: no lectures on 15.5., 12.6. and 17.7.

Extra lectures on Monday 6.5., 27.5., and 24.6., 16-18, same room, but room 0.10 on 24.6.



Content

In this lecture, methods and applications of natural language generation will be discussed:


Slides

Introduction

Examples - Major systems

Simple Systems

Text planning

Lexicalization

Aggregation

Referring expressions

Syntactic generation

Data to Text

An advanced system

Statistical generation


Literature

Building Natural Language Generation Systems, Ehud Reiter and Robert Dale, 2000

Automatic Generation of Technical Documentation, Ehud Reiter, Chris Mellish, John Levine, Applied Artificial Intelligence, 1995

An overview article (in German): chapter "Textgenerierung" (S331-360) in Computerlinguistik und Sprachtechnologie, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 2001

Remark

Joint lecture Computer science/computational linguistics

Certificates

Oral exam

Credit points

Computer science 4, CL Diploma 2, CL Bachelor 3


E-mail Helmut Horacek