SPL (Sentence Plan Language) is an abstract
notation representing the semantics of a
sentence in
natural language
In neuropsychology, linguistics, and philosophy of language, a natural language or ordinary language is any language that has evolved naturally in humans through use and repetition without conscious planning or premeditation. Natural languages ...
. In a classical
Natural Language Generation (NLG) workflow, an initial text plan (hierarchically or sequentially organized factoids, often modelled in accordance with
Rhetorical Structure Theory) is transformed by a sentence planner (generator) component to a sequence of sentence plans modelled in a Sentence Plan Language. A surface generator can be used to transform the SPL notation into natural language sentences.
Probably the most widely used SPL language used today (2022) is AMR (
Abstract Meaning Representation
Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) is a semantic representation language. AMR graphs are rooted, labeled, directed, acyclic graphs ( DAGs), comprising whole sentences. They are intended to abstract away from syntactic representations, in the se ...
, see there for further references), but is owes parts of its popularity to its application to NLP problems other than NLG, e.g., machine translation and semantic parsing.
[L. Banarescu, C. Bonial, S. Cai, M. Georgescu, K. Griffitt, U. Hermjakob, K. Knight, P. Koehn, M. Palmer, and N. Schneider (2013)]
Abstract Meaning Representation for Sembanking
, Proc. Linguistic Annotation Workshop.
See also
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Natural language generation
References
Natural language processing
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