Publikation
Self-Monitoring with Reversible Grammars
Günter Neumann; Gertjan van Noord
Universität des Saarlandes, 10/1991.
Zusammenfassung
We describe a method and its implementation for self-monitoring during natural language generation. In situations of communication where the generation of ambiguous utterances should be avoided our method is able to compute an unambiguous utterance for a given semantic input. The proposed method is based on a very strict integration of parsing and generation. During the monitored generation step, a previously generated (possibly) ambiguous utterance is parsed and the obtained alternative derivation trees are used as a "guide" for re-generating the utterance. To achieve such an integrated approach the underlying grammar should be reversible.