French Amalgam: A Machine-Learned Sentence Realization System

  • Martine Smets ,
  • Michael Gamon ,
  • Simon Corston-Oliver ,
  • Eric Ringger

Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues |

Publication

This paper presents the French implementation of Amalgam, a machine-learned sentence realization system. It presents in some detail two of the machine-learned models employed in Amalgam and shows how linguistic intuition and knowledge can be combined with statistical techniques to improve the performance of the models.