A simple surface realizer for Filipino

• Main Authors: Ong, Ethel, Abella, Stephanie C., Santos, Lawrence L., Tiu, Dennis C.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2011
• Subjects: Natural language generation (Computer science); Filipino language > Data processing; Realization (Linguistics); Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/72
• Institution: De La Salle University

Surface realizers are used at the final phase of natural language text generation to convert abstract or symbolic representations of information to linguistic forms in a particular human language. Rules of grammar for the target language are applied to produce text that is syntactically, morphologically and orthographically correct. In this paper, we present the development of FilSuRe, a simple surface realizer for Filipino. We also present how the Booklat system was produced by revising the realization phase of a prototype automatic story generator system, Picture Books, to use the API library of FilSuRe in order to generate children's stories in Filipino. © 2011 by Ethel Ong, Stephanie Abella, Lawrence Santos, and Dennis Tiu.