A text generation system that uses simple rhetorical figures

  1. Hervás Ballesteros, Raquel
  2. Pereira, Francisco C.
  3. Gervás Gómez-Navarro, Pablo
  4. Cardoso, Amilcar
Journal:
Procesamiento del lenguaje natural

ISSN: 1135-5948

Year of publication: 2006

Issue: 37

Pages: 199-206

Type: Article

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Abstract

This paper describes the improvement of the stylistic quality of the texts generated by the PRINCE system, a natural language generation application designed for building texts for simple fairy tales. This is done by exploiting the potential of a lexical resource - such as WordNet - and structure mapping algorithms to enhance the output texts with simple rhetorical tropes such as metaphor and analogy. The enhanced system follows the OAA multi-agent system architecture, with various agents cooperating to achieve the final texts. The results of the enhanced version are presented and discussed. Finally, some problems and possible extensions are described.