CogentHelp: NLG meets SE in a tool for authoring dynamically generated on-line help

  • Authors:
  • Michael White;David E. Caldwell

  • Affiliations:
  • CoGenTex, Inc., Ithaca, NY;CoGenTex, Inc., Ithaca, NY

  • Venue:
  • ANLC '97 Proceedings of the fifth conference on Applied natural language processing
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

CogentHelp is a prototype tool for authoring dynamically generated on-line help for applications with graphical user interfaces, embodying the "evolution-friendly" properties of tools in the literate programming tradition. In this paper, we describe Cogen Help, highlighting the usefulness of certain natural language generation techniques in supporting software-engineering goals for help authoring tools --- principally, quality and evolvability of help texts.