This thesis describes new approaches to the formal modeling of narrative discourse.
Although narratives of all kinds are ubiquitous in daily life, contemporary text processing …

The content of real‐world databases, knowledge bases, database models, and formal
specifications is often highly redundant and needs to be aggregated before these …

A Computational Theory of Prose Style for Natural Language Generation Page 1 A
Computational Theory of Prose Style for Natural Language Generation David D. McDonald …

Storytelling with family photos, as an important mode of reminiscence-based activities, can
be instrumental in promoting intergenerational communication between grandparents and …

We report here on a significant new set of capabilities that we have incorporated into our
language generation system MUMBLE. Their impact will be to greatly simplify the work of …

Within the field of Artificial Intelligence, research on knowledge-based text analysis has
shown how natural language processing depends on common-sense reasoning, plausible …

This chapter explores the border area between vision and natural language with respect to a
particular task: obtaining verbal descriptions of scenes with motion. The task involves image …

Aggregation is the process of removing redundant information during language generation
while preserving the information to be conveyed. Aggregation is an important component of …

Current approaches to generating multi-sentence text fail to consider what the user may infer
from the different statements in a description. This paper presents a system which contains …

TWRM-TOPOGRAPHIC is part of a novel type of information-systems, which is based on a
semantic representation of thematic descriptions of full-texts. TWRM-TOPOGRAPHIC …