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Bootstrapping lexical choice via multiple-sequence alignment


Author(s) : Regina Barzilay, 
Publisher : N/A
Publication Date : 2002
ISSN : N/A
Abstract : An important component of any generation system is the mapping dictionary, a lexicon of elementary semantic expressions and corresponding natural language realizations. Typically, labor-intensive knowledge-based methods are used to construct the dictionary. We instead propose to acquire it automatically via a novel multiple-pass algorithm employing multiple-sequence alignment, a technique commonly used in bioinformatics. Crucially, our method leverages latent information contained in multiparallel corpora ? datasets that supply several verbalizations of the corresponding,