Text to Text Generation

 A PhD candidacy presentation by Kapil Thadani

• Committee: Kathy McKeown, Mona Diab, Julia Hirschberg
• Date: Monday December 1, 2009
• Time: 4:30pm - 7:00pm
• Venue: CS Conference Room (CSB 453)
• Presentation: Slides 

Paraphrase Induction

• Reluctant Paraphrase: Textual Restructuring under an Optimisation Model 
  Mark Dras
  In Proceedings of PacLing 1997
• Extracting Paraphrases from a Parallel Corpus 
  Regina Barzilay and Kathleen R. McKeown
  In Proceedings of ACL 2001
• DIRT: Discovery of Inference Rules from Text 
  Dekang Lin and Patrick Pantel
  In Proceedings of KDD 2001
• Learning to Paraphrase: An Unsupervised Approach using Multiple Sequence Alignment 
  Regina Barzilay and Lillian Lee
  In Proceedings of NAACL 2003
• Syntax-Based Alignment of Multiple Translations: Extracting Paraphrases and Generating New Sentences 
  Bo Pang, Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu
  In Proceedings of NAACL 2003
• Monolingual Machine Translation for Paraphrase Generation 
  Chris Quirk, Chris Brockett and William B. Dolan
  In Proceedings of EMNLP 2004
• Paraphrasing with Bilingual Parallel Corpora 
  Colin Bannard and Chris Callison-Burch
  In Proceedings of ACL 2005
• Syntactic Constraints on Paraphrases Extracted from Parallel Corpora 
  Chris Callison-Burch
  In Proceedings of EMNLP 2008

Sentence Simplification

• Automatic Induction of Rules for Text Simplification 
  Raman Chandrasekar and Srinivas Bangalore
  Knowledge Based Systems 10(3) 1997
• Syntactic Simplification and Text Cohesion 
  Advaith Siddhartan
  Research on Language and Computation 2006
• Text Simplification for Information-Seeking Applications 
  Beata Beigman Klebanov, Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu
  On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems (LNCS 3290), 2004
• Using Discourse Commitments to Recognize Textual Entailment 
  Andrew Hickl
  In Proceedings of COLING 2008

Sentence Compression

• Sentence Reduction for Automatic Text Summarization 
  Hongyan Jing
  In Proceedings of Applied Natural Language Processing 2000
• Summarization beyond Sentence Extraction: A Probabilistic Approach to Sentence Compression 
  Kevin Knight and Daniel Marcu
  Artificial Intelligence 139(1), 2002
• Supervised and Unsupervised Learning for Sentence Compression 
  Jenine Turner and Eugene Charniak
  In Proceedings of ACL 2005
• Discriminative Sentence Compression with Soft Syntactic Evidence 
  Ryan McDonald
  In Proceedings of EACL 2006
• Sentence Compression beyond Word Deletion 
  Trevor Cohn and Mirella Lapata
  In Proceedings of COLING 2008
• Modelling Compression with Discourse Constraints 
  James Clarke and Mirella Lapata
  In Proceedings of EMNLP 2007
• A Noisy-Channel Model for Document Compression 
  Hal Daumé III and Daniel Marcu
  In Proceedings of ACL 2002

Sentence Fusion

• Cut and Paste Based Text Summarization 
  Hongyan Jing and Kathleen R. McKeown
  In Proceedings of NAACL 2000
• Sentence Fusion for Multidocument News Summarization 
  Regina Barzilay and Kathleen R. McKeown
  Computational Linguistics 31(3), 2005
• Explorations in Sentence Fusion 
  Erwin Marsi and Emiel Krahmer
  In Proceedings of the European Workshop on Natural Language Generation 2005
• Generic Sentence Fusion is an Ill-Defined Summarization Task 
  Hal Daumé III and Daniel Marcu
  In Proceedings of the ACL Text Summarization Branches Out Workshop 2004
• Query-Based Sentence Fusion is Better Defined and Leads to More Preferred Results than Generic Sentence Fusion 
  Emiel Krahmer, Erwin Marsi and Paul van Pelt
  In Proceedings of ACL 2008
• Sentence Fusion via Dependency Graph Compression 
  Katja Filippova and Michael Strube
  In Proceedings of EMNLP 2008

Elements of Fusion: Alignment and Linearization

• A Phrase-Based Alignment Model for Natural Language Inference 
  Bill MacCartney, Michel Galley and Christopher D. Manning
  In Proceedings of EMNLP 2008
• Tree Linearization in English: Improving Language Model Based Approaches 
  Katja Filippova and Michael Strube
  In Proceedings of NAACL 2009
• Improving Grammaticality in Statistical Sentence Generation: Introduciing a Dependency Spanning Tree Algorithm with an Argument Satisfaction Model 
  Stephen Wan, Mark Dras, Robert Dale and Cécile Paris
  In Proceedings of EACL 2009