Abducing temporal discourse

Alex Lascarides; Jon Oberlander

doi:10.1007/3-540-55399-1_12

Abducing temporal discourse

Alex Lascarides, Jon Oberlander

School of Informatics

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We focus on the following question: given the causal and temporal relations between events in a knowledge base, what are the ways they can be described in extended text? We argue that we want to be able to generate laconic text, where certain temporal information remains implicit but pragmatically inferrable. An algorithm for generating laconic text is proposed, interleaving abduction and nonmonotonic deduction over a formal model of pragmatic implicature. We demonstrate that the nonmonotonicity ensures that the generation of laconic text is influenced by the preceding linguistic and extra-linguistic context.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation
Subtitle of host publication	6th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation Trente, Italy, April 5–7 1992 Proceedings
Editors	R. Dale, E. Hovy, D. Rösner, O. Stock
Publisher	Springer
Pages	167-182
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-540-47054-0
ISBN (Print)	978-3-540-55399-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55399-1_12
Publication status	Published - 1992

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
Volume	587
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Lascarides, A., & Oberlander, J. (1992). Abducing temporal discourse. In R. Dale, E. Hovy, D. Rösner, & O. Stock (Eds.), Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation: 6th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation Trente, Italy, April 5–7 1992 Proceedings (pp. 167-182). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 587). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55399-1_12

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Lascarides, A & Oberlander, J 1992, Abducing temporal discourse. in R Dale, E Hovy, D Rösner & O Stock (eds), Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation: 6th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation Trente, Italy, April 5–7 1992 Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 587, Springer, pp. 167-182. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55399-1_12

Abducing temporal discourse. / Lascarides, Alex; Oberlander, Jon.
Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation: 6th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation Trente, Italy, April 5–7 1992 Proceedings. ed. / R. Dale; E. Hovy; D. Rösner; O. Stock. Springer, 1992. p. 167-182 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 587).

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