Aggregation (linguistics)  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search  Aggregation is a subtask of natural
language generation, which involves merging syntactic
constituents (such as sentences and phrases) together. Sometimes
aggregation can be done at a conceptual level.   A simple
example of syntactic aggregation is merging the two sentences
John went to the shop and John bought an apple into the single
sentence John went to the shop and bought an apple.  Syntactic
aggregation can be much more complex than this. For example,
aggregation can embed one of the constituents in the other;
e.g., we can aggregate John went to the shop and The shop was
closed into the sentence John went to the shop, which was
closed.  From a pragmatic perspective, aggregating sentences
together often suggests to the reader that these sentences are
related to each other. If this is not the case, the reader may
be confused. For example, someone who reads John went to the
shop and bought an apple may infer that