| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/J19221/01 |
| Title: |
DRAFTING ASSISTANT FOR TECHNICAL WRITERS (DRAFTER) IED4/1/5827 |
| Principal Investigator: |
Scott, Professor D |
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| Department: |
Information Technology Research Inst |
| Organisation: |
University of Brighton |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 November 1993 |
Ends: |
31 January 1997 |
Value (£): |
295,663
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Human Communication in ICT |
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This project aims to develop a computational tool to support the task of writing multilingual documentation from a common, non-linguistic, model of a task. The test bed application domain is instructions for software use in English and French. The work packages of the project include the development of:(a) an environment for knowledge capture and selection;(b) computational grammars of English and French to support the generation of instructions in the chosen domain;(c) a text-planner for producing pragmatically congruent text structures in the two languages. Progress:The architecture of the system is in place and the representation scheme for the domain model and message-modelling framework are complete. The tactical generator for English (a refinement of the Penman grammar) is also complete; good progress has been made on the French tactical generator (a systemic grammar of French constructed in the KPML environment). Work on the grammars and on the text planner is driven by an in-depth corpus analysis of non-translated texts in the application domain. A first prototype of DRAFTER was completed in October 1994, demonstrating a full scenario of the system, from knowledge capture to pragmatically congruent instructions in French and English. A second prototype will be complete at the end of May, for demonstration at the IJCAI95 workshop on multilingual generation. The work of the project has been presented at several international workshops and conferences on Natural Language Processing, Human Computer Interaction and Computers and Writing. (Copies of the deliverable reports and of current publications are available from the project manager.) The work of the project is being conducted by Dr.s Cecile Paris, Richard Power and Keith Vander Linden. The project also receives significant input from the other activities in multilingual generation at the ITRI being undertaken by Professor Donia Scott, Dr.s Roger Evans and Lyn Pemberton, Tony Hartley and Markus Fischer.
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http://www.bton.ac.uk |