Charting the Potential of Description Logic for the Generation of Referring Expressions

Yuan Ren; Kees van Deemter; Jeff Z. Pan

Charting the Potential of Description Logic for the Generation of Referring Expressions

Yuan Ren, Kees van Deemter, Jeff Z. Pan

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The generation of referring expressions (GRE), an important subtask of Natural Language Generation (NLG) is to generate phrases that uniquely identify domain entities. Until recently, many GRE algorithms were developed using only simple formalisms, which were taylor made for the task. Following the fast development of ontology-based systems, reinterpretations of GRE in terms of description logic (DL) have recently started to be studied. However, the expressive power of these DL-based algorithms is still limited, not exceeding that of older GRE approaches. In this paper, we propose a DL-based approach to GRE that exploits the full power of OWL2. Unlike existing approaches, the potential of reasoning in GRE is explored.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference
Editors	John Kelleher, Brian Mac Namee, Ielka van der Sluis
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Number of pages	9
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2010
Event	6th International Natural Language Generation Conference - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 7 Jul 2010 → 9 Jul 2010 Conference number: 6 https://www.scss.tcd.ie/conferences/INLG2010/index.html

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Conference	6th International Natural Language Generation Conference
Abbreviated title	INLG 2010
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	7/07/10 → 9/07/10
Internet address	https://www.scss.tcd.ie/conferences/INLG2010/index.html

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Ren, Y, van Deemter, K & Pan, JZ 2010, Charting the Potential of Description Logic for the Generation of Referring Expressions. in J Kelleher, B Mac Namee & I van der Sluis (eds), Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics, 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 7/07/10. <https://aclanthology.org/W10-4212>

Charting the Potential of Description Logic for the Generation of Referring Expressions. / Ren, Yuan; van Deemter, Kees; Pan, Jeff Z.
Proceedings of the 6th International Natural Language Generation Conference. ed. / John Kelleher; Brian Mac Namee; Ielka van der Sluis. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2010.

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