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Levels of organisation in ontology verbalisation

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Sandra Williams,

Richard PowerAuthors Info & Claims

ENLG '11: Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation

Pages 158 - 163

Published: 28 September 2011 Publication History

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The SWAT Tools ontology verbaliser generates a hierarchically organised hypertext designed for easy comprehension and navigation. The document structure, inspired by encyclopedias and glossaries, is organised at a number of levels. At the top level, a heading is generated for every concept in the ontology; at the next level, each entry is subdivided into logically-based headings like 'Definition' and 'Examples'; at the next, sentences are aggregated when they have parts in common; at the lowest level, phrases are hyperlinked to concept headings. One consequence of this organisation is that some statements are repeated because they are relevant to more than one entry; this means that the text is longer than one in which statements are simply listed. This trade-off between organisation and brevity is investigated in a user study.

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Dannélls DEugenio BMcRoy S(2012)On generating coherent multilingual descriptions of museum objects from semantic web ontologiesProceedings of the Seventh International Natural Language Generation Conference10.5555/2392712.2392727(76-84)Online publication date: 30-May-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2392712.2392727
Third AEugenio BMcRoy S(2012)"Hidden semantics"Proceedings of the Seventh International Natural Language Generation Conference10.5555/2392712.2392726(67-75)Online publication date: 30-May-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2392712.2392726
Power RGardent CStriegnitz K(2011)Deriving rhetorical relationships from semantic contentProceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation10.5555/2187681.2187695(82-90)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2187681.2187695

Levels of organisation in ontology verbalisation
1. Hardware
  1. Power and energy
    1. Power estimation and optimization
2. Theory of computation

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ENLG '11: Proceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation

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Claire Gardent
CNRS/Loria, Nancy, France
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Kristina Striegnitz
Union College

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Dannélls DEugenio BMcRoy S(2012)On generating coherent multilingual descriptions of museum objects from semantic web ontologiesProceedings of the Seventh International Natural Language Generation Conference10.5555/2392712.2392727(76-84)Online publication date: 30-May-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2392712.2392727
Third AEugenio BMcRoy S(2012)"Hidden semantics"Proceedings of the Seventh International Natural Language Generation Conference10.5555/2392712.2392726(67-75)Online publication date: 30-May-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2392712.2392726
Power RGardent CStriegnitz K(2011)Deriving rhetorical relationships from semantic contentProceedings of the 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation10.5555/2187681.2187695(82-90)Online publication date: 28-Sep-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2187681.2187695

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