Gaps and Bridges

It was planned and coordinated by Kristiina Jokinen (Nara Institute of Science and Technology [NAIST]), Mark Maybury (The MITRE Corporation), Michael Zock (LIMSI-CNRS), and Ingrid Zukerman (Monash University). Thirty scholars from Europe, the United States, Australia, and Japan participated in the workshop. The purpose of the workshop was to clarify the role of rational and cooperative planning in generation in general and to bridge the gaps that seem to exist between theoretical models of planning agents and practical aspects of natural language generation (NLG) architecture. In recent years, there has been a focus shift in NLG from the study of well-formedness conditions (grammars) to the exploration of the communicative adequacy of linguistic forms: Speaking is viewed as an indirect means for achieving commupresentations, attempted to provide further material for building bridges. The workshop finished with a panel on the gaps and bridges theme, summarizing the topics of the ...