Generation of Dutch referring expressions using the D-TUNA corpus

This paper describes our research into generating Dutch noun phrases as descriptions of furniture objects or people. This is usually done in two steps: attribute selection and realisation. This research focuses only on the realisation step: generating a noun phrase from given attributes. The research is done on the Dutch version of the TUNA-corpus, which contains annotated human-produced descriptions. Three algorithms were developed for this task, each an improvement over the last. We extracted the lexical choice from the D-TUNA corpus, and used templates generated from the corpus which specif... Mehr ...