Home PageThis documents lists a number of web sites relevant to the exploration of "text generation" or "natural language generation" (NLG) under different headings. For any aspect of natural language processing (NLP) — "computational linguistics" — the home page of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is a good starting point. They have a number of special interest groups, one of which is SigGEN for generation (see below).
The Association for Computational Linguistics
Special Interest Group on GENeration (SigGEN)
NLG systems, software and demos
Researchers in NLG
John Bateman
One of the pioneers in text generation. Involvement in the Penman project since 1986 and development and maintenance of the KPML generator. See
"KPML 2.0 is now available as a free standalone application for Windows95 and WindowsNT and as source files for compilation under Windows and Unix for those with a suitable Lisp license.
Documentation for KPML 2.0 will be coming online as soon as possible. Until then, the documentation for KPML 1.0 described below still provides the most detailed description of available functionalities."
Robert Dale
http://www.mri.mq.edu.au/~rdale/
"Much of Robert's current energy is oriented towards the co-authoring with Ehud Reiter of a book entitled Building Natural Language Generation Systems. Another current project is a A Handbook of Natural Language Processing, co-edited with Hermann Moisl and Harry Somers."
Laurence Danlos
http://www.linguist.jussieu.fr/~danlos/
Michael Elhadad
http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~elhadad/
Research includes development of unification-based generators used by various generation projects (FUF: Functional Unification Formalism Interpreter and SURGE: A Syntactic Realization Grammar for Text Generation) ? see http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/surge/
Ed Hovy
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/hovy.html
Research includes generation — including the
maintenance and development of the Penman system ? see http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/nlp-at-isi.html
(the web page for NLP work at ISI) and http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/Healthdoc.html
(the web for generation research at ISI).
Dave McDonald
No web page from the "ACL universe" list of web pages.
Kathy McKeown
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~kathy/
One of the pioneers in research into text generation — with her Ph.D. system TEXT (McKeown, 1982; 1985). "My interests lie in the area of natural language processing and in particular, natural language generation. We are currently working in three main areas. The first, summary generation, involves the generation of natural language text, or summaries, from data such as stock market statistics. We are also have a number of projects on text summarization. We are working on a generating summary updates over live multimedia information, on domain independent generation of summaries using a combination of statistical and linguistic techniques, and on generation of summaries across multiple, medical articles. In the second, statistical natural language, we are using statistical analysis of large text corpora to identify constraints on how words are used. Such results can be used to automate the development of a lexicon, or dictionary. Finally, we are also working on the generation of multimedia explanation, developing techniques to coordinate language and graphics, to produce explanations in the context of a human computer interface for medical information. Part of our interest here is on the generation of spoken language and differences with generation of text."
Kathy McKoy
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mccoy/
[Focus of attention, sentence generation by means of TAGs (tree adjoining grammars), etc..]
Christian Matthiessen
http://minerva.ling.mq.edu.au/ModellingGroup/members/Xian/SystemicModellngXian.html
Johanna Moore
http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~jmoore/
"Her research interests span the areas of natural language processing, human-computer interaction, planning and problem-solving, user modeling, knowledge representation, intelligent tutoring systems and expert systems."
Mick O’Donnell
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/micko/wag.html
Systemic functional linguist — from Sydney, currently in Edinburgh. Developer of the systemic workbench WAG.
"The Workbench for Analysis and Generation (WAG) is a system which offers various tools for developing Systemic resources (grammars, semantics, lexicons, etc.), maintaining these resources (lexical acquisition tools, network graphers, hypertext browsers, etc.), and processing (sentence analysis -- O'Donnell 1993, 1994; sentence generation O'Donnell 1995b; knowledge representation -- O'Donnell 1994; corpus tagging and exploration -- O'Donnell 1995a)."
Cécile Paris
http://www.syd.dit.csiro.au/~cecile/
"My research interests lie in Artificial Intelligence, particularly in Language Engineering (or Language Technology). The focus of my research has been in Natural Language Generation (text planning and phrasing, discourse and dialogue), user modeling, and, more recently, authoring tools and computer human interfaces. My research has been applied in a variety of applications, from automatic or assisted software documentation to expert systems explanations. My interests also include intelligent tutoring systems, learning, and software engineering. In general, I am interested in facilitating communication with computers and software systems, empowering humans and understanding how people communicate."
Elke Teich
http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/publish/komet/elke.html
The KPML system, German generation, multilinguality, meaning to speech generation.
Last updated: 02/10/03