Controlling Information Density in Discourse Generation (A07)

• Subject Area: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics ; Image and Language Processing, Computer Graphics and Visualisation, Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 232722074

A7 provides an applied perspective to "information in flux" in the setting of Minecraft instruction giving. We will develop a natural language generation (NLG) system that adapts to its user over the course of each construction, tailoring its language use to the user's implicit preferences in order to optimize the tradeoff between clarity and succinctness of the instructions. The system will recompute the instruction plan on the fly in response to an improved understanding of the user's needs. We will develop tightly integrated neurosymbolic planning and NLG techniques to compute optimal instructions in real time.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1102: Information Density and Linguistic Encoding
• Applicant Institution: Universität des Saarlandes
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Jörg Hoffmann; Professor Dr. Alexander Koller