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Natural language understanding and natural language generation could employ the same knowledge of language. 1 They could even represent their knowledge in the same way, provided that it was a nonprocedural encoding. 2 However, the two processes that draw on the knowledge cannot be the same because of the radical differences in information flow: Decisionmaking is a radically different kind of process than hypothesis maintainance. Understanding proceeds from a sequentially scanned text to content and intentions; generation does just the opposite. Understanding processes must cope with ambiguity and underspecification, problems that do not arise in generation (i.e. an audience receives more information from situationally controlled inferences than from the literal text). Generators on the other hand must on some basis choose from an oversupply of syntactic and lexical mechanisms all the while remaining consistent with the constraints imposed by grammaticality, linear order, and stylistic convention--a classic planning problem that now invites careful solutions closely tuned to the special demands of natural language. Neither process is particularly more heuristic in its judgements tha

Author

McDonald, David D.

Publisher

Association for Computational Linguistics

Published

1987

Language

EN