From water to wine: generating natural language text from today's applications programs

Authors:
David D. McDonald;Marie W. Meteer
Affiliations:
Northampton, MA;BBN Laboratories, Cambridge MA
Venue:
ANLC '88 Proceedings of the second conference on Applied natural language processing
Year:
1988

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Abstract

In this paper we present a means of compensating for the semantic deficits of linguistically naive underlying application programs without compromising principled grammatical treatments in natural language generation. We present a method for building an interface from today's underlying application programs to the linguistic realization component Mumble-86. The goal of the paper is not to discuss how Mumble works, but to describe how one exploits its capabilities. We provide examples from current generation projects using Mumble as their linguistic component.