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
- Venue:
- INLG
- SIG:
- SIGGEN
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 57–66
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W18-6506
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W18-6506
- 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.
- Cite (Informal):
- SimpleNLG-ZH: a Linguistic Realisation Engine for Mandarin (Chen et al., INLG 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/W18-6506.pdf
- Code
- a-quei/simplenlg-zh