Moving from data to text using causal statements in explanatory narratives

Donald Ewan Matheson; Gowri Somayajulu Sripada; George MacLeod Coghill

doi:10.1109/UKCI.2010.5625591

Moving from data to text using causal statements in explanatory narratives

Donald Ewan Matheson, Gowri Somayajulu Sripada, George MacLeod Coghill

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Abstract

Data-to-text natural language generation techniques
do not currently impart deep meaning in their output
and leave it to an expert user to draw causal inferences.
Frequently, the expert is adding meaning that would be present
in data sources that could be made available to the NLG system.
As the system is intended to convey as much information as
possible, it seems counterintuitive to require the user to add
meaning that could already have been included in the systems
output. In this paper, we introduce our concept of using a
reasoning engine to draw causal inferences about the data and
then expressing them in an explanatory narrative.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 10th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI)
Publisher	IEEE Explore
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4244-8775-2, 978-1-4244-8773-8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-8774-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/UKCI.2010.5625591
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	Proceedings of the 10th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI) - Essex, United Kingdom Duration: 8 Sept 2010 → 10 Sept 2010

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Name	UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI)
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Print)	2162-7657

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Conference	Proceedings of the 10th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI)
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Essex
Period	8/09/10 → 10/09/10

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Moving from data to text using causal statements in explanatory narratives. / Matheson, Donald Ewan; Sripada, Gowri Somayajulu ; Coghill, George MacLeod.
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Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Published conference contribution

Matheson, DE, Sripada, GS & Coghill, GM 2010, Moving from data to text using causal statements in explanatory narratives. in Proceedings of the 10th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI). UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), IEEE Explore, Proceedings of the 10th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI), Essex, United Kingdom, 8/09/10. https://doi.org/10.1109/UKCI.2010.5625591

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