A generative perspective on verb alternations. Stede, M. Computational Linguistics, 24(3):401–430, September, 1998.
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Verb alternations have been researched extensively in linguistics, but they have not yet received a systematic treatment in natural language generation systems; consequently, generators cannot make informed choices among alternatives. As a step towards overcoming this discrepancy, we review some linguistic work on several prominent alternations, revise and extend it, and suggest a set of rules that allow the series of alternated forms to be produced from a single base form of the verb, the lexical entry. The framework has been implemented in the MOOSE sentence generator, which can thus choose a particular verb alternation in order to accomplish generation goals such as placing emphasis on the most important element of the sentence.
@Article{	  stede2,
  author	= {Manfred Stede},
  title		= {A generative perspective on verb alternations},
  journal	= {Computational Linguistics},
  volume	= {24},
  number	= {3},
  month		= {September},
  year		= {1998},
  pages		= {401--430},
  abstract	= {Verb alternations have been researched extensively in
		  linguistics, but they have not yet received a systematic
		  treatment in natural language generation systems;
		  consequently, generators cannot make informed choices among
		  alternatives. As a step towards overcoming this
		  discrepancy, we review some linguistic work on several
		  prominent alternations, revise and extend it, and suggest a
		  set of rules that allow the series of alternated forms to
		  be produced from a single base form of the verb, the
		  lexical entry. The framework has been implemented in the
		  MOOSE sentence generator, which can thus choose a
		  particular verb alternation in order to accomplish
		  generation goals such as placing emphasis on the most
		  important element of the sentence.},
  download	= {http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/Stede-1998.pdf}
}

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