Abstract: "I survey some recent applications-oriented NL generation systems, and claim that they have a remarkably similar architecture in terms of the modules they divide the generation process into, the computations these modules perform, ...

Abstract: "We discuss the costs and benefits of using natural- language (NL) generation technology to produce documentation and on-line help messages, and propose some 'intermediate' generation techniques that provide many (although not ...

Abstract: "Natural language generation systems should customize object descriptions according to the extent of their user's domain and lexical knowledge.

This paper gives an overview of IDAS, with particular emphasis on: (1) its architecture and the types of questions it is capable of answering; (2) its KR and NL generation systems, and lessons we have learned in designing them; and (3) its ...