AGILE Review meeting - April 2000
Overview
®A reference architecture for NLG systems
®The aim of text planning
®The aim of sentence planning
®The AGILE IMD text planner
®The AGILE IMD sentence planner
®Text structuring for the final prototype
In this talk we will present –in brief- the text structuring module developed in WP 5.2. We start out by discussing what is considered nowadays the ideal architecture for natural language generation systems (following Reiter & Dale) – particularly, placing text planning and sentence planning in the larger context of generating a text given a meaning specification. To round off this introduction, we present the overall aims of text planning and sentence planning. Thereafter, we come to the body of the presentation, where we illustrate how these aims are met by the text planning and sentence planning components of the AGILE Text Structuring Module (TSM). We discuss the inherently multilingual character of the TSM, and how we make optimal use of KPML to share resources among languages where possible and only differentiate where needed (e.g. in style, lexical semantics, and the realisation of discourse flow). The way the TSM has been set up allows for flexible development of resources to be used for text planning (and sentence planning), and thus provides a sound and solid ground for future developments of a text structuring module for the final AGILE prototype.