System Demonstration Multilingual Weather Forecast Generation System

The MLWFA (Multilingual Weather Forecasts Assistant) system will be demonstrated. It is developed to generate the multilingual text of the weather forecasts automatically. The raw data from the weather observation can be used to generate the weather element chart. According to the weather change trend, the forecasters can directly modify the value Of the element on the chart, such as the center .point value, the isoline and the isocircle. After •that, the modified data are stored as the input for the system. The system can select a schema depending on the input or the requirement from the users. The schema library can be conveniently maintained, such as the schema modification or extension. Through optimizing and mapping the schema •tree, the microplanner constructs the br ief and coherent internal text structure for the surface generator. After the processing of the generator, the muitilingual •weather forecasts used for the broadcast program are generated.