Summary of the paper
| Title | Portuguese Text Generation from Large Corpora |
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| Authors | Eder Novais, Ivandre Paraboni and Douglas Silva |
| Abstract | In the implementation of a surface realisation engine, many of the computational techniques seen in other AI fields have been widely applied. Among these, the use of statistical methods has been particularly successful, as in the so-called 'generate-and-select', or 2-stages architectures. Systems of this kind produce output strings from possibly underspecified input data by over-generating a large number of alternative realisations (often including ungrammatical candidate sentences.) These are subsequently ranked with the aid of a statistical language model, and the most likely candidate is selected as the output string. Statistical approaches may however face a number of difficulties. Among these, there is the issue of data sparseness, a problem that is particularly evident in cases such as our target language - Brazilian Portuguese - which is not only morphologically-rich, but relatively poor in NLP resources such as large, publicly available corpora. In this work we describe a first implementation of a shallow surface realisation system for this language that deals with the issue of data sparseness by making use of factored language models built from a (relatively) large corpus of Brazilian newspapers articles. |
| Topics | Natural Language Generation, Language modelling, Tools, systems, applications |
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Portuguese Text Generation from Large Corpora |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{NOVAIS12.153, author = {Eder Novais and Ivandre Paraboni and Douglas Silva}, title = {Portuguese Text Generation from Large Corpora}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eight International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)}, year = {2012}, month = {may}, date = {23-25}, address = {Istanbul, Turkey}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Thierry Declerck and Mehmet Uğur Doğan and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {978-2-9517408-7-7}, language = {english} } |