Constraints on the Generation of Tense, Aspect, and Connecting Words from Temporal Expressions

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dc.contributor.authorDorr, Bonnie J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorGaasterland, Terryen_US
dc.date.accessioned2004-05-31T23:20:29Z
dc.date.available2004-05-31T23:20:29Z
dc.date.created2002-08en_US
dc.date.issued2002-08-30en_US
dc.description.abstractGenerating language that reflects the temporal organization of represented knowledge requires a language generation model that integrates contemporary theories of tense and aspect, temporal representations, and methods to plan text. This paper presents a model that produces event combinations and appropriate connecting words to relate them. We distinguish between inherent and non-inherent aspectual features of verbs and describe an algorithm that uses these features to select tense, aspect, and temporal connecting words for generating text based on time-stamped information. The main result of this work is the successful incorporation of constrained linguistic theories of tense and aspect in a self-contained module called CONGEN that produces a ranked list of temporal connectives and tense/aspect possibilities from pairs of time-stamped literals. We show that the theoretical results described herein have been verified in a large-scale corpus analysis. The framework serves as the basis of a component designed to enhance the English output of a constrained generation system. (LAMP-TR-091) (UMIACS-TR-2002-71)en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/1218
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtTech Reports in Computer Science and Engineeringen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUMIACS Technical Reportsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUM Computer Science Department; CS-TR-4391en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesLAMP-TR-091en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUMIACS; UMIACS-TR-2002-71en_US
dc.titleConstraints on the Generation of Tense, Aspect, and Connecting Words from Temporal Expressionsen_US
dc.typeTechnical Reporten_US

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