Article 461
Author/s
  • A. Ramos-Soto, Jose M. Alonso, E. Reiter, K. van Deemter, A. Gatt
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  • International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 2019 - Q1

Fuzzy-Based Language Grounding of Geographical References: From Writers to Readers

We describe an applied methodology to build fuzzy models of geographical expressions, which are meant to be used for natural language generation purposes. Our approach encompasses a language grounding task within the development of an actual data-to-text system for the generation of textual descriptions of live weather data. For this, we gathered data from meteorologists through a survey and built consistent fuzzy models that aggregate the interpersonal variations found among the experts. A subset of the models was utilized in an illustrative use case, where we generated linguistic descriptions of weather maps for specific geographical expressions. These were used in a task-based evaluation to determine how well potential readers are able to identify the geographical expressions grounded on the models.
Keywords: natural language generation, linguistic descriptions of data, data-to-text, geo-referenced data, language grounding, fuzzy sets
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