Paper Info
Title
Plan-based text generation in an on-line help system
Abstract
This paper describes an on-line help system, ASSIST, which is designed to produce multiparagragh explanations in English in response to questions about computer terminology. ASSIST's text generation mechanism is based on the speech act planning theory proposed by Cohen. Namely, generation process can be viewed as the process of planning utterances to achieve a discourse goal. In order for the system to have the ability to provide different responses in accordance with user's level of expertise, a user model is constructed throughout a session, and then utilized to determine how much detail is necessary. Critic can examine how much information is sufficient for the user and vary response by cutting off an unimportant, redundant goal during the course of planning. Furthermore, a focusing mechanism is introduced to ensure that the generated explanation is coherent. Focusing information is also used to decide on how to express each sentence, i.e., whether pronominalization can be applicable, which sentence form is more appropriate, an active voice or passive one, etc.
Year
Venue
Keywords
1986
The 5th Conference on Logic programming '86
an active voice or passive one,is more appropriate,on-line help,etc.,plan-based text generation,on-line help system,user model
Field
DocType
Volume
Active voice,Text generation,Terminology,Computer science,Knowledge structure,Assembly language,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,User modeling,Speech act,Sentence
Conference
264
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0302-9743
0-387-18024-9
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takashi Kakiuchi121.17
Kuniaki Uehara249184.76
Jun'ichi Toyoda310.39