Underspecification for incremental generation

Incremental Generation of Self-corrections Using Underspecification

The focus of the present paper is on the interface between the first two components of a language production model, i.e. conceptualiser and formulator. We propose a method of how the incremental input for the formulator can be represented within an underspecification formalism. The proposed method can be used in dynamically changing environments, e.g. an airport supervision and information syst...

Underspecification, Inherent Nondeterminism and Probability in Sequence Diagrams

Nondeterminism in specifications may be used for at least two different purposes. One is to express underspecification, which means that the specifier for the same environment behavior allows several alternative behaviors of the specified component and leaves the choice between these to those responsible for implementing the specification. In this case a valid implementation will need to implem...

MEG evidence for phonological underspecification

Subjects (n=12) listened to the synthesized syllable tokens ba, da, ma, and na. Evoked magnetic fields were recorded using a 93sensor whole-head biomagnetometer array while subjects performed a same-different judgment task. A model of phonology which does not incorporate underspecification predicts no difference in the MMF for labial/coronal consonant pairs, regardless of which is presented as ...

Context-Free Representational Underspecification for NLG

Ambiguity, Underspecification and Discourse Interpretation

A formal analysis of ambiguity processing is a necessary prerequisite for the development of a theory of underspecification and discourse interpretation for NLP systems. The analysis presented here is based on a distinction between semantic ambiguity and perceived ambiguity. A sentence is semantically ambiguous if it has a multiplicity of interpretations; a form of underspecified representation...