Pragmatics and Natural Language Generation

Автоматическое порождение фраз естественного языка по OWL-модели, семантике и прагматике (Automatic Natural Language Generation Using an OWL Model, Semantics and Pragmatics)

A Flexible Pragmatics-Driven Language Generator for Animated Agents

This paper describes the NECA MNLG; a fully implemented Multimodal Natural Language Generation module. The MNLG is deployed as part of the NECA system which generates dialogues between animated agents. The generation module supports the seamless integration of full grammar rules, templates and canned text. The generator takes input which allows for the specification of syntactic, semantic and p...

Reasoning about Pragmatics with Neural Listeners and Speakers

We present a model for contrastively describing scenes, in which context-specific behavior results from a combination of inferencedriven pragmatics and learned semantics. Like previous learned approaches to language generation, our model uses a simple featuredriven architecture (here a pair of neural “listener” and “speaker” models) to ground language in the world. Like inference-driven approac...

Learning Spatial Knowledge for Text to 3D Scene Generation

We address the grounding of natural language to concrete spatial constraints, and inference of implicit pragmatics in 3D environments. We apply our approach to the task of text-to-3D scene generation. We present a representation for common sense spatial knowledge and an approach to extract it from 3D scene data. In text-to3D scene generation, a user provides as input natural language text from ...

Strategies for Specifying Relations ∗

The generation perspective taken by optimality theoretic syntax has a lot in common with the insights gained in natural language generation. This paper explores how insights about NP generation (e.g. Reiter & Dale (2000), van Deemter (2004)) can be made fruitful for explaining the semantics and pragmatics of sentences with more than one plural NP by exploiting optimality theoretic pragmatics, a...

Pragmatics and Agent Communication Languages

With an eye to increased efficiency, agent communication language (ACL) designers have heeded the analogy with natural language and introduced elements from natural language pragmatics (NLP) into their designs. However, ACL pragmatics has not availed itself of NLP advances to the extent that it could. While a few aspects of pragmatics are incorporated, most notably speech acts, their inclusion ...