Using Multi-Agent Systems to Visualize Text Descriptions

Usually people make a visual representation of what they read. This is a fact inherent to their nature. Many efforts have been done in the last years to try to find a direct method to translate a text wrote on a natural language to a graphical representation. Some solutions try to represent mainly a static scene with the objects appearing in the text. There are not so many approaches that try to build an animation from the action described in text. But in any case the approaches found on literature try create directly the visual representation from the text description. In this paper we present a new approach based on the creation of an intermediate model using the INGENIAS agent oriented methodology. Once this model has been obtained, a new translation is performed to get a visual model that can be viewed and modified with the Alice system. A multi-agent system is proposed in order to control and direct the translation process.