"Kairos": A Web-Based System for Automatic Generation of Weather Forecasts in Two Languages, Greek-English

Forecast composition is a time consuming task requiring the interaction and the integration of knowledge about meteorology, knowledge about language and knowledge about the conventions used to communicate the right amount of information to meet the needs of diverse user communities. The project “KAIROS” facilitates this work by (semi-)automating the configuration and the generation of forecasts in two languages, English and Greek via a web-based system. Among the major innovative features of “KAIROS” are the following: Generator configuration by means of several resources in which the user specifies different textual plans, the output format of the forecasts, the terminology that will be used as also the concept mappings of the data. Additionally, the modular design and the user intervention functionality of the system enforce two valuable characteristics: reusability and maintainability. In this paper, brief analysis of the architecture of the system under development "KAIROS" is given.