Ordering Among Premodifiers

We present a corpus-based study of the sequential ordering among premodifiers in noun phrases. This information is important for the fluency of generated text in practical applications. We propose and evaluate three approaches to identify sequential order among premodifiers: direct evidence, transitive closure, and clustering. Our implemented system can make over 94% of such ordering decisions correctly, as evaluated on a large, previously unseen test corpus.

• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

• Publication date

  1999-06-20

• Fields of study

  Linguistics, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3115/1034678.1034707
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• The implemented system makes over 94% of premodifier-ordering decisions correctly on a large previously unseen test corpus.

  Confidence 0.97

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extraction뀨 (7c402c1b98) reviewKiller Whale (322360f1c1) reviewimjlk (vdp8mqzes2) review
• Three approaches are proposed and evaluated for identifying sequential ordering among premodifiers: direct evidence, transitive closure, and clustering.

  Confidence 0.98

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extraction뀨 (7c402c1b98) reviewKiller Whale (322360f1c1) reviewimjlk (vdp8mqzes2) review

• clustering

  method

  An approach that groups premodifiers into clusters to support decisions about their relative order.

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extraction뀨 (7c402c1b98) reviewKiller Whale (322360f1c1) reviewimjlk (vdp8mqzes2) review
• direct evidence

  method

  An approach that uses observed ordering information in the corpus to infer how premodifiers should be sequenced.

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• fluency of generated text

  objective

  The naturalness and ease of reading of text produced by a generation system.

  Aliases: text fluency, generated-text fluency

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• large previously unseen test corpus

  evaluation setting

  A held-out corpus used to evaluate ordering decisions on data not seen during system development.

  Aliases: unseen test corpus, test corpus

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• noun phrases

  syntactic unit

  Syntactic units centered on a noun that can include determiners, modifiers, and other dependents.

  Aliases: NPs

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• premodifiers

  linguistic category

  Words or phrases that modify a noun and occur before the noun in a noun phrase.

  Aliases: pre-head modifiers

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• sequential ordering among premodifiers

  relation

  The relative ordering relation among multiple modifiers that appear before a noun within a noun phrase.

  Aliases: premodifier ordering, ordering among premodifiers

  박진우 (dztg5apj7m) extraction뀨 (7c402c1b98) reviewKiller Whale (322360f1c1) reviewimjlk (vdp8mqzes2) review
• transitive closure

  method

  A method that extends known ordering relations by inferring additional relations through transitivity.

  Aliases: closure

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