Communicative Intentions Annotation Scheme for Natural Language Generation

Abstract

Communicative intentions are one of the linguistic elements that usually determine the content of any text or message we want to express in our communicative interactions. With the purpose of contributing to the improvement of natural language generation systems, so that they can take the communicative intention as one of the starting points that will determine the structure and content of the message generated, the aim of this project is to create a communicative intentions annotation scheme based on the taxonomy presented in the Speech Act Theory. To do so, the scheme will be created with the help of a linguistic corpus and subsequently tested within a natural language generation system. In this way, it will be possible to check up to which point communicative intentions improve the planning stage of the text to be generated automatically, guiding the rest of decisions to be made by the system in order to create automatic messages with more similar results to any manually created text.