The Role of Saliency in Generating Natural Language Arguments
Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Natural Language Processing. Pages 876-882.
Abstract
Generating expressions which communicate information already known to the hearer, building enthymematic arguments, and characterising refutations all pose significant problems to traditional natural language generation techniques. After exploring these problems, an approach is proposed which through its employment of a notion of saliency handles them cleanly, and offers support for further features including clue word generation. It is argued that propositional salience and its interaction with intentional, attentional, epistemic and structural components of a text generation system have a key role to play in the design and realisation of persuasive text.
@inproceedings{ijcai1999p125,
title = {The Role of Saliency in Generating Natural Language Arguments},
author = {Reed, Chris},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-99}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Thomas Dean},
pages = {876--882},
year = {1999},
note = {Natural Language Processing},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/125},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - The Role of Saliency in Generating Natural Language Arguments AU - Reed, Chris T2 - Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-99 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 1999 SP - 876 EP - 882 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1999/125 ER -Copied
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