Concise Natural Language Generation from Formal Specifications
Project leader: Hercules Dalianis ph. +46 70-568 13 59, email: hercules@dsv.su.se
Project Description
Concise, i.e., aggregated language generation from formal specifications eliminates redundant information, in such a way that the generated natural language text becomes concise and non-redundant and hence easy to read. Aggregation is carried out with assistance of a number of aggregation rules. Aggregation has never been thoroughly investigated.
The domain investigated is formal specifications of computer systems specifically for telecom systems and the validation of these with natural language generation. The specifications studied are expressed in the Delphi-language developed at Ericsson Utvecklings AB (former Ellemtel).
To aim of this project is to find these aggregation rules and try to apply them on any text to make the text concise. This is carried out by studying various text plans used in natural language generation systems and by studying various occurring texts and from this material extract the aggregation rules. A prototype is also implemented.
Supported by: NUTEK (Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Developement) under contract P3672-1.
Cooperation with:
Ericsson Utvecklings AB (former Ellemtel)
(contact person: Guy Ridley, email: guy.ridley@eua.ericsson.se)
Information Sciences Institute/University of Southern California,
(contact
person: Eduard Hovy, email: hovy@isi.edu)
Project Period: 1994-1996