Planning English Sentences

Klappentext 'Planning English Sentences' is an ambitious and significant contribution to research on language generation in artificial intelligence. Most research in machine translation has focused on an internal semantic representation into the target language; Douglas Appelt has taken this further by looking at problems posed by the requirement in effective communication of reasoning in detail about what the hearer knows and wants. Zusammenfassung An investigation into the problems of generating natural language utterances to satisfy specific goals the speaker has in mind. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. An overview of related research; 3. Representing knowledge about intensional concepts; 4. Planning to affect an agent's mental state; 5. Planning illocutionary acts; 6. Planning surface linguistic acts; 7. Utterance planning: an example; 8. Utterance planning: the future; Notes; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas E. Appelt, Appelt Douglas E.
• Assisted by: Branimir Boguraev (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.1992
• EAN: 9780521438032
• ISBN: 978-0-521-43803-2
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Snlp
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics