Abstract
The BABYTALK BT-45 system generates textual summaries of clinical data about babies in a neonatal intensive care unit. A recent task-based evaluation of the system suggested that these summaries are useful, but not as effective as they could be. In this paper we present a qualitative analysis of problems that the evaluation highlighted in BT-45 texts. Many of these problems are due to the fact that BT45 does not generate good narrative texts; this is a topic which has not previously received much attention from the NLG research community, but seems to be quite important for creating good data-to-text systems.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
Pages | 147-156 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Publication status | Published - 12 Jun 2008 |
Event | 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2008) - Salt Fork, Ohio, United States Duration: 12 Jun 2008 → 14 Jun 2008 |
Conference
Conference | 5th International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2008) |
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Country/Territory | United States |
City | Salt Fork, Ohio |
Period | 12/06/08 → 14/06/08 |