ITRI-01-18 Evaluating text quality: Judging output texts without a clear source

Evaluating Text Quality: Judging Output Texts Without a Clear Source

We consider how far two attributes of text quality commonly used in MT evaluation – intelligibility and fidelity – apply within NLG. While the former appears to transfer directly, the latter needs to be completely re-interpreted. We make a crucial distinction between the needs of symbolic authors and those of end-readers. We describe a form of textual feedback, based on a controlled language us...

ITRI-01-17 Generating Texts with Style

We describe an approach for generating a wide variety of texts expressing the same content. By treating stylistic features as constraints on the output of a text planner, we explore the interaction between various stylistic features (from punctuation and layout to pronominal reference and discourse structure) and their impact on the form of the resulting text.

ITRI - 01 - 16 Planning Texts containing indented items

We describe a text-structuring method suitable for generating texts that contain indented items. Indentation increases the number of hierarchical levels that can be expressed in text structure, since a relatively low-level unit such as a sentence can contain indented items each comprising several paragraphs. We give formation rules for a simple class of indented structures, along with a procedu...

ITRI-01-20 AGILE - A System for Multilingual Generation of Technical Instructions

This paper presents amultilingual Natural Language Generati on system that produces technical instruction texts in Bulgari an, Czech and Russian. It generates everal types of texts, common fo r software manuals, in two styles. We illustrate the sy stem’s functionality with examples of its input and output behaviour. We discuss the criteria nd procedures adopted for evaluating the syst em and su...

ITRI - 01 - 02 Generating textual diagrams and diagrammatic texts