Enabling access to geo-referenced information: Atlas.txt

Authors:
Kavita E. Thomas;Livia Sumegi;Leo Ferres;Somayajulu Sripada
Affiliations:
University of Aberdeen, Scotland;Carleton University, Canada;Carleton University, Canada;University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Venue:
W4A '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international cross-disciplinary conference on Web accessibility (W4A)
Year:
2008

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Abstract

We present Atlas.txt, a novel data-to-text natural language generation system which enables access to geo-referenced information like online census data. We first discuss initial findings from an accessibility study on geo-referenced data and outline needs requirements for visually-impaired users of such data. We then present work towards realising our data-to-text system and indicate how it aims to address this issue.