While the World Wide Web sets the scene for the future of information sciences, a great opportunity and challenge is created for researchers in natural language generation. The present WWW paradigm in which the user is looking for information on the net, trying to interpret it, to determine what is important and useful becomes problematic as the amount of information explodes. A new paradigm ne...

Syntactic word reordering is essential for translations across different grammar structures between syntactically distant languagepairs. In this paper, we propose to embed local and non-local word reordering decisions in a synchronous context free grammar, and leverages the grammar in a chartbased decoder. Local word-reordering is effectively encoded in Hiero-like rules; whereas non-local word-...

Context is a central concept in the analysis of discourse and interaction in all the major research traditions in applied and sociolinguistics. Early linguistics did not display much sensitivity to it (Scollon, 1998, p. 80) and tended to study utterances in isolation and without reference to context. Today, however, there seems to be a general consensus around the idea that we understand uttera...

However, SMR theories were formulated when the dominant theory of communication was the code model. Consequently they presumed that meaning was determined almost entirely by a text (utterance) itself. This theory is now rejected in favor of theories that understand interpretation as the inferential product of the interaction of the text with (mind-mediated) context. These newer theories shift t...