A Sentence Generator for Dutch

Abstract

The paper presents an efficient, wide-coverage, sentence generator for Dutch, which employs the Alpino grammar and lexicon. This generator consists of a chart-based sentence realizer that builds grammatical sentences for a given abstract dependency structure, and a maximum-entropy fluency ranker which selects the most fluent sentence from a set of candidate sentences for a given dependency structure. The coverage, speed and accuracy of the generator is evaluated on several corpora.