Abstract / Description of output
The focus of the present paper is on the interface between the first two components of a language
production model, i.e. conceptualiser and formulator. We propose a method of how
the incremental input for the formulator can be represented within an underspecification formalism.
The proposed method can be used in dynamically changing environments, e.g. an
airport supervision and information system, to produce descriptions of ongoing events. Because
such a highly dynamic setting requires a real time production, an incremental conceptualiser
that produces increments piece by piece is used in order to speed up the production
process. Moreover, changes in the environment have to be recognised and quickly reported
to the user. For this reason an underspecified representation for the increments is crucial.
Underspecification allows information to be added monotonically as soon as a change in
the environment has been noticed, e.g. ‘CK-314 is on time . . . uh . . . is delayed.’
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands 2001, Selected Papers from the Twelfth CLIN Meeting, Twente, November 30, 2001 |
| Pages | 118-132 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Publication status | Published - 2001 |