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Properties

In principle the same properties as those already discussed for the monitored generator are valid. This means, that only unambiguous paraphrases are generated. Therefore it is guaranteed that the same paraphrase is not produced for different interpretations. This is important because it could be the case that a paraphrase, say S tex2html_wrap_inline12303 is also ambiguous such that it has the same interpretations as S. Therefore it could happen that the same utterance S tex2html_wrap_inline12303 is generated as a paraphrase for both LF tex2html_wrap_inline12303 and LF tex2html_wrap_inline12305 . For example in German the following sentence:

ex6456

is ambiguous because it is not clear who developed the program. If a paraphrase is to be generated, which expresses that the student developed the program, then this can be done by means of the utterance:

ex6462

But this utterance has still the same ambiguity. This means, that one has to check also the ambiguity of the paraphrase. An unambiguous solution for the example is, e.g., the utterance:

ex6468

The advantage of our approach is that only one paraphrase for each interpretation is produced and that the source of the ambiguity is used directly. Therefore, the generation of irrelevant paraphrases is avoided.

Furthermore, we do not need special predefined `ambiguity specialists', as proposed by MeteerShaked:88, but rather use the parser to detect possible ambiguities. Hence our approach is much more independent of the underlying grammar.



Guenter Neumann
Mon Oct 5 14:01:36 MET DST 1998