Plan-based integration of natural language and graphics generation
Artificial Intelligence - Special volume on natural language processing
Expressing rhetorical relations in instructional text: a case study of the purpose relation
Computational Linguistics
The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction
The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction
Planning text for advisory dialogues: capturing intentional and rhetorical information
Computational Linguistics
CogentHelp: a tool for authoring dynamically generated help for Java GUIs
SIGDOC '97 Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Computer documentation
Proceedings of the 16th annual international conference on Computer documentation
Automated knowledge acquisition for instructional text generation
Proceedings of the 20th annual international conference on Computer documentation
Interactive Multilingual Generation
CICLing '01 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
The description logic handbook
Enabling technology for multilingual natural language generation: the KPML development environment
Natural Language Engineering
A corpus study of negative imperatives in natural language instructions
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Knowledge based support for the authoring and checking of operating procedures
IEA/AIE'2003 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Developments in applied artificial intelligence
Using HLT for acquiring, retrieving and publishing knowledge in AKT: position paper
HLTKM '01 Proceedings of the workshop on Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management - Volume 2001
Towards designing natural language interfaces
CICLing'03 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing
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Multilingual instruction manuals are important for companies that have a significant volume of international business. Companies want to automate the production of these manuals to save time and money. The dominant paradigm for automated multilingual manual production has been machine translation, in which a technical writer generates a manual, and a computer translates it into another language. However, the output is constrained by the original text's style and language. The output of newer automatic language-generation systems is not constrained in this way. However, these systems need an existing knowledge base to produce manuals in various languages. They do not help technical writers while they are writing manuals, even though this is the best way to produce user-oriented, rather than product-oriented, multilingual manuals. We have developed Drafter, an interactive document-drafting tool that works with the technical writer to automatically and simultaneously generate draft, final, and updated versions of manuals in several languages. Drafter also automates some tedious tasks, allowing technical writers to focus on the more creative aspects of their job.