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A Constraint-Based Model for Lexical and Syntactic Choice in Natural Language Generation

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Constraint Solving and Language Processing (CSLP 2004)

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In this paper, we show how a constraint-based approach influences the modeling of (1) preposition lexicalization and of (2) the choice of syntactic structure in natural language generation (in particuler in French). We concentrate on the linguistic description, which is the most challenging. The CSP procedures themselves are then rather straightforward. In the first case, preposition choice depends on the verb and its requirements, on the one hand, and the characteristics of the NP the preposition heads, on the other hand. In the second case, the choice of a particular syntactic structure depends on syntactic, semantic and pragmatic constraints on a verb, its arguments and on the parameters of the semantic representation. These dependencies may induce somewhat contradictory expectations. A constraint-based approach introduces a declarative model of these complex relations, allowing to identify all the possible (1) lexical choices or (2) syntactic structures which can be predicted from lexical descriptions.

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  1. Institut de Recherches en Informatique de Toulouse, IRIT, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse Cedex, France

    Véronique Moriceau & Patrick Saint-Dizier

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  1. Research group PLIS: Programming, Logic and Intelligent Systems, Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, P.O. Box 260, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Henning Christiansen

  2. Department of Computational Linguistics, Center for Computational Modeling of Language, Copenhagen Business School, Bernhard Bangs Alle 17 B, DK-2000, Frederiksberg, Denmark

    Peter Rossen Skadhauge

  3. Computer Science, Roskilde University, Building 42.1, P.O. Box, DK-4000, Roskilde, Denmark

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Moriceau, V., Saint-Dizier, P. (2005). A Constraint-Based Model for Lexical and Syntactic Choice in Natural Language Generation. In: Christiansen, H., Skadhauge, P.R., Villadsen, J. (eds) Constraint Solving and Language Processing. CSLP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3438. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11424574_12

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