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EPSRC Reference:	GR/L77041/01
Title:	RAGS - REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR GENERATION SYSTEMS
Principal Investigator:	Mellish, Professor C
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Department:	Sch of Informatics
Organisation:	University of Edinburgh
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 March 1998	Ends:	31 May 2001	Value (£):	205,110
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Human Communication in ICT
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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Although the general problem of Natural Language Generation (NLG) remains far from completely understood, the field is starting to produce systems which achieve successful practical deployment. However, a significant barrier to wider exploitation is the lack of standard view of the generation process as a whole, within which more specialised research can be embedded and against which whole systems can be compared. This project aims to provide such a view: a reference architecture for natural language generation systems.While the lack of standardisation is quite evident in the range of current systems, this project is based on the observation by Reiter that actually most of the practical systems are architecturally broadly quite similar. In practice, there is an emerging consensus about what internal structure these applications-orientated systems should have.The proposed work will refine this consensus into more explicit reference architecture specification, identifying principal components and data representations. It will produce examples for each of the data interfaces and sample implementations of the processing modules. Although the resulting architecture may not be a perfect fit for all NLG applications, the intention is that it will be sufficiently general to facilitate sharing of resources and comparative evaluation of different approaches.
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