{"pk":32815,"title":"Generating Expressions Referring to Eventualities","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We note (a) the well-rehearsed linguistic observation that eventualities can be referred to by using either noun phrases or sentences, and (b) the seductive ontological parallels drawn by Bach [1986] between eventualities and individuals. W e show how the mechanisms for knowledge representation and referring expression generation in an existing natural language generation system [Dale 1988, 1989] can be easily extended to combine these two insights in the generation of a wide variety of forms of reference to eventualities.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Paper Presentations -- Neuroscience Models of Language","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/399166g3","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jon","middle_name":"","last_name":"Oberlander","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Robert","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dale","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Edinburgh","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1991-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32815/galley/23875/download/"}]}