Inari Listenmaa

Inari Listenmaa, Jason Morris, Alfred Ang et al.

We present the NLG component for L4, a prototype domain-specific language (DSL) for drafting laws and contracts. As a concrete use case, we describe a pipeline for a legal expert system created from L4 code. The NLG component is used in two steps. The first step is to create an interview, whose answers are processed into a query for an automated reasoner. The second step is to render the answers of the reasoner in natural language.

Ramona Enache, Inari Listenmaa, Prasanth Kolachina

In this paper, we describe methods for handling multilingual non-compositional constructions in the framework of GF. We specifically look at methods to detect and extract non-compositional phrases from parallel texts and propose methods to handle such constructions in GF grammars. We expect that the methods to handle non-compositional constructions will enrich CNLs by providing more flexibility in the design of controlled languages. We look at two specific use cases of non-compositional constructions: a general-purpose method to detect and extract multilingual multiword expressions and a procedure to identify nominal compounds in German. We evaluate our procedure for multiword expressions by performing a qualitative analysis of the results. For the experiments on nominal compounds, we incorporate the detected compounds in a full SMT pipeline and evaluate the impact of our method in machine translation process.