Cross-Domain Analogy in Automated Text Generation

Authors

Raquel Hervás
Francisco Câmara Pereira
Pablo Gervás
F. Amilcar Cardoso

Abstract

Appropriate use of analogy in computer generated texts would constitute a great advantage in
contexts where complex information needs to be communicated.
This paper presents research aimed at improving the stylistic
quality of the texts generated by a natural language generation system
with the use of analogy.
A generic architecture and a specific implementation for solving this problem are described. This implementation takes the form of a multiagent architecture in which
several independent modules are connected, each one dealing with a subtask
of the process - enriching domain information, finding structure alignment between domains,
inserting analogies in a text generation pipeline.
Initial results are presented, and several issues arising from the observed behaviour are
discussed, with special attention to possible refinements of the proposal.

Subject

Linguistic Creativity

Conference

Third joint workshop on Computational Creativity, ECAI\'06, August 2006

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