3 papers
cs.CL2001
Modeling informational novelty in a conversational system with a hybrid statistical and grammar-based approach to natural language generation
Adwait Ratnaparkhi
We present a hybrid statistical and grammar-based system for surface natural language generation (NLG) that uses grammar rules, conditions on using those grammar rules, and corpus…
cs.CL2000
Trainable Methods for Surface Natural Language Generation
Adwait Ratnaparkhi
We present three systems for surface natural language generation that are trainable from annotated corpora. The first two systems, called NLG1 and NLG2, require a corpus marked onl…
cmp-lg1998
Statistical Models for Unsupervised Prepositional Phrase Attachment
Adwait Ratnaparkhi
We present several unsupervised statistical models for the prepositional phrase attachment task that approach the accuracy of the best supervised methods for this task. Our unsuper…