Generating textual summaries of bar charts

  • Authors:
  • Seniz Demir;Sandra Carberry;Kathleen F. McCoy

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Delaware, Newark, DE;University of Delaware, Newark, DE;University of Delaware, Newark, DE

  • Venue:
  • INLG '08 Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Information graphics, such as bar charts and line graphs, play an important role in multimodal documents. This paper presents a novel approach to producing a brief textual summary of a simple bar chart. It outlines our approach to augmenting the core message of the graphic to produce a brief summary. Our method simultaneously constructs both the discourse and sentence structures of the textual summary using a bottom-up approach. The result is then realized in natural language. An evaluation study validates our generation methodology.