ITRI - 97 - 06 NLG tools to support technical authors and translators Richard Power

ITRI-95-17 Designing Drafting Tools for and with Translators

Abstract The generation by computer of multilingual documentation has been the object of many recent studies, motivated by the need to meet increasing demands with decreasing resources. These studies concentrate on the fully automatic generation of texts, leaving translators out of the loop. In contrast, our goal within the DRAFTER project is to provide tools to support rather than replace the ...

ITRI - 98 - 05 Multilingual authoring using feedback texts Richard Power and Donia

There are obvious reasons for trying to automate the production of multilingual documentation, especially for routine subjectmatter in restricted domains (e.g. technical instructions). Two approaches have been adopted: Machine Translation (MT) of a source text, and Multilingual Natural Language Generation (M-NLG) from a knowledge base. For MT, information extraction is a major difficulty, since...

Investigating the Role of the Barmaki Family in the Transmission of Ancient Medical Knowledge to the Islamic Era (Hippocratic Medicine and Indian Medicine)

In the history of post-Islamic Iran, the Barmaki family is one of the most important families in preparing the background for the transfer of the scientific heritage of ancient times, including medical knowledge to the Islamic period. From the beginning of the Abbasid era, this family penetrated the structure of the political system and after gaining political-economic power and supporting tran...

Multilingual generation of administrative forms

We will demonstrate the GIST system, which generates social security forms in English, Italian and German. The system is intended for use by the technical authors and translators who design forms. A knowledge specification tool allows the author to build a model of the form in the knowledge representation language LOOM. From the LOOM model, a text drafter generates equivalent texts in the three...

ITRI-99-04 Lexicalisation in applied NLG systems