@inproceedings{yung-etal-2021-practical,
    title = "A practical perspective on connective generation",
    author = "Yung, Frances  and
      Scholman, Merel  and
      Demberg, Vera",
    editor = "Braud, Chlo{\'e}  and
      Hardmeier, Christian  and
      Li, Junyi Jessy  and
      Louis, Annie  and
      Strube, Michael  and
      Zeldes, Amir",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse",
    month = nov,
    year = "2021",
    address = "Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/2021.codi-main.7/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.codi-main.7",
    pages = "72--83",
    abstract = "In data-driven natural language generation, we typically know what relation should be expressed and need to select a connective to lexicalize it. In the current contribution, we analyse whether a sophisticated connective generation module is necessary to select a connective, or whether this can be solved with simple methods (such as random choice between connectives that are known to express a given relation, or usage of a generic language model). Comparing these methods to the distributions of connective choices from a human connective insertion task, we find mixed results: for some relations, it is acceptable to lexicalize them using any of the connectives that mark this relation. However, for other relations (temporals, concessives) either a more detailed relation distinction needs to be introduced, or a more sophisticated connective choice module would be necessary."
}