Integrated Generation of Graphics and Text: a Corpus Study under Consideration for Other Conferences (specify)? No Integrated Generation of Graphics and Text: a Corpus Study

We describe the results of a corpus study of more than 400 text excerpts that accompany graphics. We show that text and graphics play complementary roles in transmitting information from the writer to the reader and derive some observations for the automatic generation of texts associated with graphics. Abstract We describe the results of a corpus study of more than 400 text excerpts that accompany graphics. We show that text and graphics play complementary roles in transmitting information from the writer to the reader and derive some observations for the automatic generation of texts associated with graphics.