A Reference Architecture for Natural Language Generation Systems (2006)
| Venue: | NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING |
| Citations: | 10 - 1 self |
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@ARTICLE{Mellish06areference,
author = {Chris Mellish and Donia Scott and Lynne Cahill and Roger Evans and Daniel Paiva and Mike Reape},
title = {A Reference Architecture for Natural Language Generation Systems},
journal = {NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING},
year = {2006},
volume = {12},
pages = {2006}
}
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Abstract
We present the rags (Reference Architecture for Generation Systems) framework: a specification of an abstract Natural Language Generation (NLG) system architecture to support sharing, re-use, comparison and evaluation of NLG technologies. We argue that the evidence from a survey of actual NLG systems calls for a different emphasis in a reference proposal from that seen in similar initiatives in information extraction and multimedia interfaces. We introduce the framework itself, in particular the two-level data model that allows us to support the complex data requirements of NLG systems in a flexible and coherent fashion, and describe our efforts to validate the framework through a range of implementations.
