rapaport@sunybcs (William J. Rapaport) (03/10/88)
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UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
COLLOQUIUM
From Water to Wine:
Generating Natural Language Text from Today's Applications Programs
Dr. David D. McDonald
Brattle Research Corporation
Today's AI programs all too often cut corners in the
conceptual models they reason with. To generate natural
sounding texts from these models one needs to compensate for
these semantic deficits but without compromising the princi-
pled grammatical treatments in the generator. I will talk
about how the interface to our text generator, Mumble-86,
handles these problems, using an example from a knowledge-
based mission-planning system. Looking to the future, I will
discuss what we have learned about how to correct some of
the deficits, including locality of type information, anno-
tating units according to their use and context, and a more
versatility in the representational formalism to allow for
alternative perspectives on the same facts.
Date: Thursday, 10th March, 1988
Time: 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm
Place: Bell 337, Amherst Campus
Wine and cheese will be served at 4:30 pm at Bell 224.