The Importance of Narrative and Other Lessons from an Evaluation of an NLG System that Summarises Clinical Data

Ehud Baruch Reiter; Albert Gatt; Francois Portet; Marian van der Meulen

The Importance of Narrative and Other Lessons from an Evaluation of an NLG System that Summarises Clinical Data

Ehud Baruch Reiter, Albert Gatt, Francois Portet, Marian van der Meulen

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Abstract

The BABYTALK BT-45 system generates textual summaries of clinical data about babies in a neonatal intensive care unit. A recent task-based evaluation of the system suggested that these summaries are useful, but not as effective as they could be. In this paper we present a qualitative analysis of problems that the evaluation highlighted in BT-45 texts. Many of these problems are due to the fact that BT45 does not generate good narrative texts; this is a topic which has not previously received much attention from the NLG research community, but seems to be quite important for creating good data-to-text systems.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	147-156
Number of pages	9
Publication status	Published - 12 Jun 2008
Event	5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2008) - Salt Fork, Ohio, United States Duration: 12 Jun 2008 → 14 Jun 2008

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Conference	5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2008)
Country/Territory	United States
City	Salt Fork, Ohio
Period	12/06/08 → 14/06/08

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The Importance of Narrative and Other Lessons from an Evaluation of an NLG System that Summarises Clinical Data. / Reiter, Ehud Baruch; Gatt, Albert; Portet, Francois et al.

Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2008. p. 147-156.

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Reiter, EB, Gatt, A, Portet, F & van der Meulen, M 2008, The Importance of Narrative and Other Lessons from an Evaluation of an NLG System that Summarises Clinical Data. in Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 147-156, 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2008) , Salt Fork, Ohio, United States, 12/06/08. <https://aclanthology.org/W08-1119/>

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