Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation in Multilingual Text Generation

Aiming to link the realms of lexical semantics and knowledge represented in description logic, this book develops the means for systematically deriving a set of paraphrases from the same underlying representation with the emphasis on events and verb meaning. Furthermore, the same mapping mechanism is used to achieve multilingual generation: English and German output are produced in parallel, on the basis of an adequate division between language-neutral and language-specific (lexical and grammatical) knowledge. The text provides detailed insights into designing the representations and organizing the generation process.