Learning Features that Predict Cue Usage
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '97/EACL '97), pp. 80 - 87, July, 1997
Abstract
Our goal is to identify the features that predict the occurrence and placement of discourse cues in tutorial explanations in order to aid in the automatic generation of explanations. Previous attempts to devise rules for text generation were based on intuition or small numbers of constructed examples. We apply a machine learning program, C4.5, to induce decision trees for cue occurrence and placement from a corpus of data coded for a variety of features previously thought to affect cue usage. Our experiments enable us to identify the features with most predictive power, and show that machine learning can be used to induce decision trees useful for text generation.
BibTeX
@conference{DiEugenio-1997-14430,author = {B. DiEugenio and Johanna Moore and Massimo Paolucci},
title = {Learning Features that Predict Cue Usage},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 8th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '97/EACL '97)},
year = {1997},
month = {July},
pages = {80 - 87},
}
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