Optimising referential coherence in text generation

Kibble, Rodger and Power, Richard (2004). Optimising referential coherence in text generation. Computational Linguistics, 30(4) pp. 401–416.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/0891201042544893

URL: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/08...

Abstract

This paper describes an implemented system which uses centering theory for planning of coherent texts and choice of referring expressions. We argue that text and sentence planning need to be driven in part by the goal of maintaining referential continuity and thereby facilitating pronoun resolution: obtaining a favourable ordering of clauses, and of arguments within clauses, is likely to increase opportunities for non-ambiguous pronoun use.
Centering theory provides the basis for such an integrated approach. Generating coherent texts according to centering theory is treated as a constraint satisfaction problem.

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