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Lexical selection in the process of language generation

Year: 1987

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: In this paper we argue that lexical selection plays a more important role in the generation process than has commonly been assumed. To stress the importance of lexical-semantic input to generation, we explore the distinction and treatment of generating open and closed class lexical items, and suggest an additional classification of the latter into discourse-oriented and proposition-oriented items. Finally, we discuss how lexical selection is influenced by thematic (focus) information in the input.

Source: Proceedings of the conference - Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting

DOI: 10.3115/981175.981203

Authors: James Pustejovsky, Sergei Nirenburg

Institutions: Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon University

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2024903213

FWCI: 4.941

Cites: 12

Cited by: 18

Related to: 10