Abstract
Geo-referenced data which are often communicated via
maps are inaccessible to the visually impaired population. We summarise existing approaches to improving
accessibility of geo-referenced data and present the Atlas.txt project which aims to produce textual summaries
of such data which can be read out via a screenreader.
We outline issues involved in generating descriptions of
geo-referenced data and present initial work on content
determination based on knowledge acquisition from both
parallel corpus analysis and input from visually impaired
people. In our corpus analysis we build an ontology
containing abstract representations of expert-written sentences which we associate with macros containing sequences of data analysis methods. This helps us to identify which data analysis methods need to be applied to
generate text from data.
maps are inaccessible to the visually impaired population. We summarise existing approaches to improving
accessibility of geo-referenced data and present the Atlas.txt project which aims to produce textual summaries
of such data which can be read out via a screenreader.
We outline issues involved in generating descriptions of
geo-referenced data and present initial work on content
determination based on knowledge acquisition from both
parallel corpus analysis and input from visually impaired
people. In our corpus analysis we build an ontology
containing abstract representations of expert-written sentences which we associate with macros containing sequences of data analysis methods. This helps us to identify which data analysis methods need to be applied to
generate text from data.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages | 163-166 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
| Event | Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation - SaarBrucken, Germany Duration: 17 Jun 2007 → 17 Jun 2007 |
Conference
| Conference | Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation |
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| Country/Territory | Germany |
| City | SaarBrucken |
| Period | 17/06/07 → 17/06/07 |