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Building a generation knowledge source using Internet-accessible newswire

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Dragomir R. Radev,

Kathleen R. McKeownAuthors Info & Claims

ANLC '97: Proceedings of the fifth conference on Applied natural language processing

Pages 221 - 228

https://doi.org/10.3115/974557.974590

Published: 31 March 1997 Publication History

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In this paper, we describe a method for automatic creation of a knowledge source for text generation using information extraction over the Internet. We present a prototype system called PROFILE which uses a client-server architecture to extract noun-phrase descriptions of entities such as people, places, and organizations. The system serves two purposes: as an information extraction tool, it allows users to search for textual descriptions of entities; as a utility to generate functional descriptions (FD), it is used in a functional-unification based generation system. We present an evaluation of the approach and its applications to natural language generation and summarization.

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