This report introduces an implemented scheme for generating target- language sentences using a compositional representation of meaning called lexical conceptual structure. Lexical conceptual structure facilitates two crucial operations associated with generation: lexical selection and syntactic realization. The compositional nature of the representation is particularly valuable for these two operations when semantically equivalent source-and-target-language words and phrases are structurally or thematically divergent. To determine the correct lexical items and syntactic realization associated with the surface form in such cases, the underlying lexical-semantic forms are systematically mapped to the target-language syntactic structures. The model described constitutes a lexical-semantic extension to UNITRAN.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MIT/oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/6018 |
| Date | 01 June 1989 |
| Creators | Dorr, Bonnie J. |
| Source Sets | M.I.T. Theses and Dissertation |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 18 p., 1386243 bytes, 1093908 bytes, application/postscript, application/pdf |
| Relation | AIM-1160 |
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