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Source authoring for multilingual generation of personalised object descriptions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2006

I. ANDROUTSOPOULOS ,
J. OBERLANDER  and
V. KARKALETSIS
I. ANDROUTSOPOULOS
Affiliation:
Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Patission 76, 104 34 Athens, Greece
J. OBERLANDER
Affiliation:
School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 2 Buccleuch Pl., Edinburgh EH8 9LW, U.K.
V. KARKALETSIS
Affiliation:
Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, P.O. Box 60228, 153 10 Aghia Paraskevi, Greece
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Abstract

We present the source authoring facilities of a natural language generation system that produces personalised descriptions of objects in multiple natural languages starting from language-independent symbolic information in ontologies and databases as well as pieces of canned text. The system has been tested in applications ranging from museum exhibitions to presentations of computer equipment for sale. We discuss the architecture of the overall system, the resources that the authors manipulate, the functionality of the authoring facilities, the system's personalisation mechanisms, and how they relate to source authoring. A usability evaluation of the authoring facilities is also presented, followed by more recent work on reusing information extracted from existing databases and documents, and supporting the OWL ontology specification language.

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Natural Language Engineering , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , September 2007 , pp. 191 - 233
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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