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What and Who
Natural Language Generation as Planning
Alexander Koller
Talk
AG 1, AG 2, AG 3, AG 4, AG 5, SWS, RG1, RG2
Public Audience
English
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Date, Time and Location
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
14:00
30 Minutes
E1 4
024
Saarbrücken
Abstract
The problem of natural language generation is intimately related to AI planning on many levels. In both problems, the computer has to search for a sequence of actions that combine in appropriate ways to achieve a given goal; in the case of generation, these actions may correspond to uttering speech acts, sentences, or individual words. This has been recognized in the literature for several decades, but there is currently a revival of interest in exploring this connection, which has been sparked especially by the recent efficiency improvements in planning.
In my talk, I will sketch some of my previous work on translating sentence generation as a planning problem; this makes it possible to overcome the artificial distinction between sentence planning and realization while still retaining efficiency. I will then present the GIVE Challenge, in which we have asked the community to come up with systems that generate natural language instructions that help users solve a task in a virtual environment. Finally, I will discuss how I want to approach communication in the GIVE task as a planning problem in my cluster project.
Contact
Bahareh Kadkhodazadeh
0681-302-70156
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Bahareh Kadkhodazadeh, 11/05/2008 16:03
Bahareh Kadkhodazadeh, 11/05/2008 15:24 -- Created document.
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