Lecture: Natural Language Generation

Summer term 2016

Lecturer: Helmut Horacek

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

On 20.4. and 27.4., moved to room 323 (same building)

Begin: 20.4.

Attention: no lectures on 4.5., 1.6. and 8.6.

Extra lectures on Thursdays 16.6., 7.7., 21.7. 16-18, room 001, bldg. E1.7



Content

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


Slides

Introduction

Simple systems

Text planning

Aggregation

Lexicalization

Referring expressions

Syntactic generation

Advanced text planning

Data to Text

Statistical generation

References


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