Report on the RAGS Workshop, held in Edinburgh
12th-13th November, 1999
Purpose of the workshop
This workshop aimed to bring together a small group of NLG
researchers, each associated with an existing major NLG system, to
consider in detail how well the draft RAGS architecture applied to
their system. The workshop included brief presentations on the
results of this analysis by each participant, and discussion of the
issues raised by the exercise.
Participants were asked to recast their own NLG system in terms of the
current RAGS architecture, as the RAGS team had done for the Caption
Generation System, with regard to the following sorts of
considerations:
- how well the functional decomposition of the RAGS architecture matches
their own system;
- how well the data representations of the RAGS architecture matches their own system;
- how well the inter-module control structure of their system is supported by the RAGS architecture;
- how close a RAGS-compliant implementation can get to their desired implementation as a whole;
- what additions or alterations to the RAGS architecture would improve it.
Presentations of invited speakers, in some cases slightly modified after the workshop
- Tilman Becker, Generation in
VerbMobil and the RAGS Architecture (ps)
- Stephan Busemann, Relating Shallow
Generation to RAGS (ppt)
- John Carroll, Flexible
Generation from Fragments and RAGS (ps)
- Helmut Horacek, Architectural
Issues in Generating Deductive Argumentation (Word for Mac)
- Guy Lapalme, Comparing
PostGraphe with the RAGS architecture (ps)
- Kathy McCoy, Describing
ICICLE within the RAGS Architecture, (pdf)
- David McDonald, A Rational Reconstruction of Genaro (no
electronic version)
- Kathy McKeown, MAGIC Seen
from the Perspective of RAGS (ppt)
- Sergei Nirenberg
- Jon Oberlander, iLex: Soon to be available in new ragsberry flavour
- Richard Power, Reducing
ICONOCLAST to RAGS (ps)
- Ehud Reiter, The Architecture of the
STOP System (pdf version, or possibly try the ps)
- John Tait, Towards Re-implementing MA
BLe within the RAGS Architecture (rtf)
Other participants
- Kalina Boncheva
- Jo Calder
- Floriana Grasso
- Johanna Moore
- Massimo Poesio
- Bonnie Webber
RAGS Project Members
Presentation: Re-implementation of the CGS system within the RAGS architecture
Background document: Inter-module communication in RAGS
- Chris Mellish
- Christy Doran
- Daniel Paiva
- Donia Scott
- Lynne Cahill
- Mike Reape
- Neil Tipper
- Roger Evans
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