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Automatic Generation of Technical Documentation
Ehud Reiter
CoGenTex Inc, Ithaca, NY, USA
When: Wednesday, 8th June 1994
Time: 2:00pm
Where: Microsoft Institute, Conference Room 1
Abstract:
I will discuss how natural language generation (NLG) techniques can be used to automatically produce technical documentation from domain databases or knowledge bases, and linguistic and contextual models. This will be a fairly applied talk which stresses what (the technology can do) and why (people use NLG), not how (NLG works).
The presentation will include a brief look at several existing applied NLG systems; an examination of the benefits that NLG technology offers (eg, multilingual document production, contextual and user tailoring, guaranteed standards conformance, greater document accuracy); and an analysis of the future prospects of NLG in industry.
SPEAKER:
Dr. Reiter has worked in the Natural Language Generation area since the late 1980s, first as a PhD student at Harvard University, then as a post-doc at the University of Edinburgh, and now as a Senior Scientist at CoGenTex, a small US/Canadian company which specializes in building applied NLG systems.
Enquiries: Maria Milosavljevic 9850 6345 mariam@mpce.mq.edu.au
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