A text generation system that uses simple rhetorical figures
- Hervás Ballesteros, Raquel
- Pereira, Francisco C.
- Gervás Gómez-Navarro, Pablo
- Cardoso, Amilcar
ISSN: 1135-5948
Year of publication: 2006
Issue: 37
Pages: 199-206
Type: Article
More publications in: Procesamiento del lenguaje natural
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.