Planning English Sentences
Planning English Sentences by Douglas E. Appelt, published by Cambridge University Press on June 26, 1992, is a scholarly exploration of generating natural language utterances aligned with specific speaker goals. This 184-page work delves into the complexities of language generation within the realm of artificial intelligence, moving beyond traditional focuses on translation from semantic representations to target languages.
Readers will find a detailed investigation into the formal representation of illocutionary acts and the speaker’s beliefs regarding the hearer’s knowledge. The book presents Dr. Appelt’s innovative approach, grounded in possible-worlds semantics and intensional logic, and illustrates its application through the computer system KAMP (Knowledge and Modalities Planner). This work is relevant to those interested in language arts, linguistics, and the psychological aspects of writing, offering insights into the design of interactive computer systems and multiagent planning.
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This book is an investigation into the problems of generating natural language utterances to satisfy specific goals the speaker has in mind. It is thus an ambitious and significant contribution to research on language generation in artificial intelligence, which has previously concentrated in the main on the problem of translation from an internal semantic representation into the target language. Dr. Appelt’s approach, based on a possible-worlds semantics of an intensional logic of knowledge and action, enables him to develop a formal representation of the effects of illocutionary acts and the speaker’s beliefs about the hearer’s knowledge of the world. The theory is embodied and illustrated in a computer system, KAMP (Knowledge and Modalities Planner), described in the book. Dr. Appelt’s work thus has important applications to the design of interactive computer systems, multiagent planning systems and the planning of knowledge acquisition.
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