Generating Natural Language Descriptions With Integrated Text and Examples
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Author_Vibhu O. Mittal
automated instructional text creation
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Category=UYQL
Cognitive Load Theory
cognitive psychology
Coherence Relations
Concept List
Corpus Analysis
Critical Features
Cue Phrase
Data Elements
eq_bestseller
eq_computing
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
example generation algorithms
Follow
Generating Natural Language
Hold
Integrated Text
intelligent tutoring systems
Intermediate Texts
knowledge-based systems
Left Parenthesis
Negative Examples
Nil
Plan Operators
Satellite Goal
technical writing pedagogy
Terminal Symbols
Text Planner
Text Planning
Text Type
Top Level Goal
user modeling in documentation
Variable Feature
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- ISBN 9780805824148
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book discusses issues in generating coherent, effective natural language descriptions with integrated text and examples. This is done in the context of a system for generating documentation dynamically from the underlying software representations. Good documentation is critical for user acceptance of any complex system. Advances in areas such as knowledge-based systems, natural language, and multimedia generation now make it possible to investigate the automatic generation of documentation from the underlying knowledge bases. This has several important benefits: it is always accessible; it is always current, because the documentation reflects the underlying representation; and, it can take the communication context, such as the user, into account. The work described in this book compiles results from cognitive psychology and education on effective presentation of examples, as well as work on computational generation of examples from intelligent tutoring systems. It also takes into account computational learning from examples, and a characterization of good examples for just this purpose. Issues arising from these research areas--as well as issues coming from the author's own corpus analysis of instructional and explanatory texts--are discussed in the context of generating natural language descriptions of software constructs. A text planner is used for a hierarchy of communicative goals. Examples are treated as an integral part of the planning process and their interaction with text is represented at all stages. The strengths and limitations of this approach are also discussed. Although the focus of this book is the generation of natural language descriptions, a similar set of issues need to be addressed in the generation of multimedia descriptions. This book will be of interest to all researchers working in the areas of natural language interfaces, intelligent tutoring systems, documentation and technical writing, and educational psychology.
Vibhu O. Mittal Just Research and Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
