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ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Building natural language generation systems
Building natural language generation systems
Using Natural-Language Processing to Produce Weather Forecasts
IEEE Expert: Intelligent Systems and Their Applications
Practical issues in automatic documentation generation
ANLC '94 Proceedings of the fourth conference on Applied natural language processing
The rôle of natural language processing in alternative and augmentative communication
Natural Language Engineering
Compansion: From research prototype to practical integration
Natural Language Engineering
Automatic generation of textual summaries from neonatal intensive care data
Artificial Intelligence
Enabling storytelling by Aphasics in an augmented home environment
BCS-HCI '08 Proceedings of the 22nd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Culture, Creativity, Interaction - Volume 2
An architecture for data-to-text systems
ENLG '07 Proceedings of the Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
SimpleNLG: a realisation engine for practical applications
ENLG '09 Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation
Using semantic authoring for Blissymbols communication boards
NAACL-Short '06 Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Short Papers
Choosing words in computer-generated weather forecasts
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on connecting language to the world
Using NLG and sensors to support personal narrative for children with complex communication needs
SLPAT '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
SLPAT '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies
Automatically generating stories from sensor data
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
ICCHP'06 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
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Children with complex communication needs who use voice output communication aids seldom engage in extended conversation. The “How was School today...?” system has been designed to enable such children to talk about their school day. The system uses data-to-text technology to generate narratives from sensor data. Observations, interviews and prototyping were used to ensure that stakeholders were involved in the design of the system. Evaluations with three children showed that the prototype system, which automatically generates utterances, has the potential to support disabled individuals to participate better in interactive conversation. Analysis of a conversational transcript and observations indicate that the children were able to access relevant conversation and had more control in the conversation in comparison to their usual interactions where control lay mainly with the speaking partner. Further research to develop an improved, more rugged system that supports users with different levels of language ability is now underway.