Strategies for Comparison in Encyclopedia Descriptions

5/02/97


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Strategies for Comparison in Encyclopedia Descriptions

The Motivation for this Work

What is an Echidna?

What is an Echidna?

How big is an Aye-aye?

Overview

What is Natural Language Generation?

Some Benefits of Text Generation

Overview

What is Peba-II?

Peba-II: Describing an Animal

Peba-II: Architecture

Peba-II: Knowledge Base Structure

Peba-II: Knowledge Base Segment

Peba-II: Phrasal Lexicon Segment

Peba-II: The Property Hierarchy

Peba-II: Text Planning Component

Peba-II: Describing an Animal

Peba-II: Text Planning Component

Peba-II: Comparing two Animals

Peba-II: User Modelling

Peba-II: Views on a Taxonomy

Peba-II: The Expert’s Description

Overview

Purpose of the Corpus Analysis

Keywords Used to Extract Comparative Sentences

Overview

Defining Comparison

Three Types of Comparison

Direct Comparison

Direct Comparison Example

Direct Comparison Examples

Clarificatory Comparison

Clarificatory Comparison Example

Illustrative Comparison

Illustrative Comparison Examples

Examples of the use of “like”

Overview

Direct Comparison

Direct Comparison Example

Clarificatory Comparison

Clarificatory Comparison Example

Illustrative Comparison

Choosing a Comparator

Illustrative Comparison Example

Illustrative Comparison

Overview

Conclusions

Future Directions

Questions?

Author: Maria Milosavljevic

Email: mariam@mpce.mq.edu.au

Home Page: http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/~mariam/

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