The role of saliency in generating natural language arguments

Chris Reed

The role of saliency in generating natural language arguments

Chris Reed

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Abstract

Generating expressions which communicate information already known to the hearer, building enthymematic arguments, and characterising refutations all pose significant problems to traditional natural language generation techniques. After exploring these problems, an approach is proposed which through its employment of a notion of saliency handles them cleanly, and offers support for further features including clue word generation. It is argued that propositional salience and its interaction with intentional, attentional, epistemic and structural components of a text generation system have a key role to play in the design and realisation of persuasive text.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings
Editors	Thomas Dean
Publisher	International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Pages	878-881
Number of pages	4
Volume	2
ISBN (Print)	1558606130
Publication status	Published - 1999
Event	16th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 1999 - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 31 Jul 1999 → 6 Aug 1999

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Conference	16th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 1999
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Stockholm
Period	31/07/99 → 6/08/99

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Reed, C 1999, The role of saliency in generating natural language arguments. in T Dean (ed.), IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Proceedings. vol. 2, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 878-881, 16th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 1999, Stockholm, Sweden, 31/07/99. < http://library.dundee.ac.uk:80/F/?func=direct&local_base=DUN01&doc_number=000226738>

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