Generation of anaphors in Chinese
The goal of this thesis is to investigate the computer generation of various kinds of anaphors in Chinese, including zero, pronominal and nominal anaphors, from the semantic representation of multisentential text. The work is basically divided into two steps: the first is to investigate linguistic behaviour of Chinese anaphora, and the other is to implement the result of the first part in a Chinese natural language generation system to see how it works. The first step is in general to get a set of rules governing the use of all kinds of anaphors. To achieve this, we performed a sequence of experiments in a stepwise refined manner. In the experiments, we basically examined the occurrence of anaphors in human-generated text and the ones generated by algorithms employing the rules, assuming the same semantic and discourse structures as the text. We started with distinguishing between the use of zero and other anaphors, termed non-zeroes. Then we performed experiments to distinguish between pronouns and nominal anaphors within the non-zeroes. Finally, we refined the previous result to consider different kinds of descriptions for nominal anaphors. In this research we confine ourselves to descriptive texts. Three
Yeh, Ching-Long
Generation of anaphors in Chinese. The goal of this thesis is to investigate the computer generation of various kinds of anaphors in Chinese, including zero, pronominal and nominal anaphors, from the semantic representation of multisentential text. The work is basically divided into two steps: the first is to investigate linguistic behaviour of Chinese anaphora, and the other is to implement the result of the first part in a Chinese natural language generation system to see how it works. The first step is in general to get a set of rules governing the use of all kinds of anaphors. To achieve this, we performed a sequence of experiments in a stepwise refined manner. In the experiments, we basically examined the occurrence of anaphors in human-generated text and the ones generated by algorithms employing the rules, assuming the same semantic and discourse structures as the text. We started with distinguishing between the use of zero and other anaphors, termed non-zeroes. Then we performed experiments to distinguish between pronouns and nominal anaphors within the non-zeroes. Finally, we refined the previous result to consider different kinds of descriptions for nominal anaphors. In this research we confine ourselves to descriptive texts. Three
generation anaphor chinese goal_investigate computer generation various_kind anaphor chinese include zero pronominal nominal semantic_representation text work basically divide_two step first investigate linguistic_behaviour chinese anaphora implement first_part chinese natural_language generation system see work first_step general get set_rule govern use kind anaphor achieve perform sequence refine manner basically examined occurrence human generated text generate employing rule assume semantic discourse structure text start distinguish use zero anaphor term non perform distinguish pronoun nominal within non finally refine previous consider different_kind description nominal confine descriptive text