@inproceedings{yung-etal-2021-practical,
title = {A practical perspective on connective generation},
author = {Frances Pik Yu Yung and Merel Scholman and Vera Demberg},
url = {https://aclanthology.org/2021.codi-main.7},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.codi-main.7},
year = {2021},
date = {2021},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI)},
pages = {72-83},
publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
address = {Punta Cana, Dominican Republic and Online},
abstract = {In data-driven natural language generation, we typically know what relation should be expressed and need to select a connective to lexicalize it. In the current contribution, we analyse whether a sophisticated connective generation module is necessary to select a connective, or whether this can be solved with simple methods (such as random choice between connectives that are known to express a given relation, or usage of a generic language model). Comparing these methods to the distributions of connective choices from a human connective insertion task, we find mixed results: for some relations, it is acceptable to lexicalize them using any of the connectives that mark this relation. However, for other relations (temporals, concessives) either a more detailed relation distinction needs to be introduced, or a more sophisticated connective choice module would be necessary.},
pubstate = {published},
type = {inproceedings}
}