Multilingual Natural Language Generator (MNLG) for EPOCH Showcase

INTRODUCTION

ITRI's role in this showcase focuses on the thesis that to be optimally useful, the information related to Cultural Heritage should be presented according to the user's profile, and that is often advantageous to generate such presentations automatically, rather than storing them in advance.

AIM

The aim is to develop a Multilingual - Natural Language Generator (M-NLG) that will produce questions and answers with the descriptions of the exhibited sights in the Wolfenbuttel's showcase. Both questions and answers will be tailored according to:

The age group of the user (child vs. adult)
The language of the user's country (English)
Current location and orientation
History of interaction

ARCHITECTURE OVERVIEW

The elements of the architecture are the following:

Facts of Wolfenbuttel's sights
Content selection module: selects the information from the database as requested.
Surface realisation module: composes the questions and answers in natural language according to the user profile.
RRL (Rich Representation Language): interface language for representing the information that is exchanged between the various modules (Piwek, P., B. Krenn, et al. 2002).

Project resources

RESTRICTED to PARTNERS

Project publications

Showcase brochure

Poster

Participants Role

ITRI University of Brighton	Donia Scott Richard Power Paul Piwek Ondrej Pacovsky Karina Rodriguez Michel Généreux	Implementation and development of the prototype

Starting date

March 2004

Financial support

EPOCH is a network of about a hundred European cultural institutions joining their efforts to improve the quality and effectiveness of the use of Information and Communication Technology for Cultural Heritage.
EPOCH is funded by the European Commission under the Community Sixth Framework Programme. (contract no. IST-2002-507382)

Contact

Donia.Scott@itri.brighton.ac.uk

University of Brighton | Faculty of Information Technology