3 papers
cs.CL2001
Anaphora and Discourse Structure
Bonnie Webber, Matthew Stone, Aravind Joshi +1
We argue in this paper that many common adverbial phrases generally taken to signal a discourse relation between syntactically connected units within discourse structure, instead w…
cs.CL2001
Microplanning with Communicative Intentions: The SPUD System
Matthew Stone, Christine Doran, Bonnie Webber +2
The process of microplanning encompasses a range of problems in Natural Language Generation (NLG), such as referring expression generation, lexical choice, and aggregation, problem…
cmp-lg1998
Textual Economy through Close Coupling of Syntax and Semantics
Matthew Stone, Bonnie Webber
We focus on the production of efficient descriptions of objects, actions and events. We define a type of efficiency, textual economy, that exploits the hearer's recognition of infe…