Background Reading for Columbia Statistical Generation Day
This list of papers is related to the talks to be presented in
the Statistical Generation Day. For the full bibliography on statistical
generation check the list collected by Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki. For an overview on traditional generation you can read Reiter's (1994)
paper.
Surface Realization
Knight, K. and Hatzivassiloglou, V. 1995.
Two-level, Many-Paths
Generation. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'95), pages
252-260, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Langkilde, I. and Knight, K. 1998.
Generation
that Exploits Corpus-Based Statistical Knowledge. In Proceedings of
the 36th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and
17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-ACL 1998), pages
704-710, Montreal, Canada.
Langkilde, I. and Knight,K.1998.
The
Practical Value of n-grams in generation. In Proceedings of the 9th
International Natural Language Workshop (INLG '98), Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario.
Langkilde, I. 2000.
Forest-Based
Statistical Sentence Generation. In Proceedings of the 6th Applied
Natural Language Processing Conference and the 1st Meeting of the North
American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ANLP-NAACL 2000),
pages 170-177, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Srinivas Bangalore and Owen Rambow. 2000
Exploiting a Probabilistic Hierarchical Model for Generation ,
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2000) , Saarbrucken, Germany.
Lexical Choice
Ratnaparkhi, A. 2000.
Trainable Methods for
Surface Natural Language Generation. In Proceedings of the 6th Applied
Natural Language Processing Conference and the 1st Meeting of the North
American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ANLP-NAACL 2000), pages
194-201, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Sentence Planning
Walker, M. A., Rambow O. and Rogati, M. 2001
SPoT: A Trainable Sentence Planner In Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of
the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics
(NAACL-01), Pittsburgh, PA.
Content Planning
Duboue, P. A. and McKeown K. R. 2001.
Empirically
Estimating Order Constraints for Content Planning in Generation. In Proceedings
of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL/EACL-2001),
Toulouse, France.
Evaluation
Bangalore S., Rambow O. and Whittaker S.,
Evaluation
Metrics for Generation, In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Natural
Language Generation (INLG 2000), Mitzpe Ramon, Israel.
Papineni K., Roukos S., Ward T, Zhu W-J.
Bleu: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation