SimpleNLG-IT: adapting SimpleNLG to Italian

Abstract

This paper describes the SimpleNLG-IT realiser, i.e. the main features of the porting of the SimpleNLG API system (Gatt and Reiter, 2009) to Italian. The paper gives some details about the grammar and the lexicon employed by the system and reports some results about a first evaluation based on a dependency treebank for Italian. A comparison is developed with the previous projects developed for this task for English and French, which is based on the morpho-syntactical differences and similarities between Italian and these languages.

SimpleNLG-DE: Adapting SimpleNLG 4 to German

“…It is implemented in Java and its current Version (4.4.8) is available under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). 1 Since it was published in 2009, SimpleNLG was adapted to seven other languages, these are (in chronological order): German (Bollmann, 2011), French (Vaudry and Lapalme, 2013), Italian (Mazzei et al, 2016), Spanish (Ramos-Soto et al, 2017), Dutch (de Jong and Theune, 2018), Mandarin (Chen et al, 2018), and Galician (Cascallar-Fuentes et al, 2018).…”

Enriching the WebNLG corpus

“…No intermediate representations are available so researchers can straight-forwardly use them to develop or evaluate popular tasks in NLG pipelines (Reiter and Dale, 2000), such as Discourse Ordering, Lexicalization, Aggregation, Referring Expression Generation, among others. Moreover, these new corpora, like many other resources in Computational Linguistics more in general, are only available in English, limiting the development of NLGapplications to other languages, which is currently an emerging theme in NLG research community -see, for instance, the increased availability of SimpleNLG tools to languages other than English (Mazzei et al, 2016;Bollmann, 2011;Vaudry and Lapalme, 2013;Ramos-Soto et al, 2017) and the recent Multilingual Surface Realization task (Mille et al, 2018).…”

SimpleNLG-ZH: a Linguistic Realisation Engine for Mandarin

“…To date, the original English SimpleNLG has been adapted to German (Bollmann, 2011), French (Vaudry and Lapalme, 2013), Portuguese (De Oliveira and Sripada, 2014), Italian (Mazzei et al, 2016), Spanish (Soto et al, 2017), Filipino (Ong et al, 2011) and Telugu (Dokkara et al, 2015). There is no such adaptation work yet for Sino-Tibetan languages, whose morphosyntactic structure is very different from the above languages.…”