SimpleNLG-ZH: a Linguistic Realisation Engine for Mandarin

Guanyi Chen, Kees van Deemter, Chenghua Lin


Abstract
We introduce SimpleNLG-ZH, a realisation engine for Mandarin that follows the software design paradigm of SimpleNLG (Gatt and Reiter, 2009). We explain the core grammar (morphology and syntax) and the lexicon of SimpleNLG-ZH, which is very different from English and other languages for which SimpleNLG engines have been built. The system was evaluated by regenerating expressions from a body of test sentences and a corpus of human-authored expressions. Human evaluation was conducted to estimate the quality of regenerated sentences.
Anthology ID:
W18-6506
Volume:
Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation
Month:
November
Year:
2018
Address:
Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Editors:
Emiel Krahmer, Albert Gatt, Martijn Goudbeek
Venue:
INLG
SIG:
SIGGEN
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
57–66
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-6506
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-6506
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Cite (ACL):
Guanyi Chen, Kees van Deemter, and Chenghua Lin. 2018. SimpleNLG-ZH: a Linguistic Realisation Engine for Mandarin. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, pages 57–66, Tilburg University, The Netherlands. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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SimpleNLG-ZH: a Linguistic Realisation Engine for Mandarin (Chen et al., INLG 2018)
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-6506.pdf
Code
 a-quei/simplenlg-zh