Automatically generating natural language reports in an office environment

Authors:
Jugal Kalita;Sunil Shende
Affiliations:
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA;University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Venue:
ANLC '88 Proceedings of the second conference on Applied natural language processing
Year:
1988

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe a system which models a set of concurrent processes that are encountered in a typical office environment, using a body of explicitly sequenced production rules. The system employs an interval-based temporal network for storing historical information. A text planning module traverses this network to search for events which need to be mentioned in a coherent report describing the current status of the system. In addition, the planner also combines similar information for succinct presentation whenever applicable. Finally, we elaborate on how we adapt an available generation module to produce well-structured textual report for our chosen domain.