Michael O'Donnell

RSTTool 2.4 - A markup Tool for Rhetorical Structure Theory

RSTTool is a graphical tool for annotating a text in terms of its rhetorical structure. The demonstration will show the various interfaces of the tool, focusing on its ease of use.

Optimising text quality in generation from relational databases

This paper outlines a text generation system suited to a large class of information sources, relational databases. We focus on one aspect of the problem: the additional information which needs to be specified to produce reasonable text quality when generating from relational databases. We outline how databases need to be prepared, and then describe various types of domain semantics which can be used to improve text quality.

Demonstration of ILEX 3.0

We will demonstrate the ILEX system, a system which dynamically generates descriptions of database objects for the web, adapting the description to the discourse context and user type. Among other improvements in version 3, the system now generates from relational databases, and this demonstration will focus on this ability. We will also show how incremental extensions to the domain semantics improve the quality of the text produced.