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Slavic languages are characteristic by their relatively high degree of word order freedom. In the process of automatic generation from an underlying representation of the content, we have to ensure that a semantically and contextually appropriate word order is chosen. In this paper, we elucidate information structure as the main factor determining word order in Slavic languages, and we present an approach to handling word order in text generation in the context of the AGILE project [4].1
AGILE (Automatic Generation of Instructions in Languages of Eastern Europe) is supported by the European Commission within the COPERNICUS programme, grant No. PL961104. We would like to thank our colleagues from the Charles University, the University of Brighton, the Saarland University, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Research Institute of Artificial Intelligence.
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Kruijff-Korbayová, I., Kruijff, GJ.M. (1999). Handling Word Order in a Multilingual System for Generation of Instructions. In: Matousek, V., Mautner, P., Ocelíková, J., Sojka, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1692. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48239-3_15
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