Symbolic Authoring for Multilingual Natural Language Generation

  • Authors:
  • Ion Androutsopoulos;Dimitris Spiliotopoulos;Konstantinos Stamatakis;Aggeliki Dimitromanolaki;Vangelis Karkaletsis;Constantine D. Spyropoulos

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SETN '02 Proceedings of the Second Hellenic Conference on AI: Methods and Applications of Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We describe the symbolic authoring facilities of the M-PIRO project. M-PIRO is developing technology that allows personalized multilingual object descriptions, in both textual and spoken form, to be produced from symbolic information in a database and small fragments of text. The technology is being tested in the context of electronic museums, where a prototype that produces dynamically multilingual exhibit descriptions for presentations over the web has already been developed. This paper focuses on M-PIRO's authoring subsystem, which allows domain experts with no language technology expertise to configure the system for new applications. The authoring facilities allow the experts to define or modify the structure of the underlying database, its contents, and the system's domain-dependent linguistic resources. Previews of the generated texts can also be produced during the authoring process to monitor the content and quality of the resulting descriptions.