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Natural Language Generation From Ontologies

Author: Van Nguyen

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Title:Natural Language Generation From Ontologies
Authors:Van Nguyen
Proceedings:ICLP-DC ICLP'18 DC Proceedings
Editor: Paul Tarau
Keywords:Phylotastic, Grammatical Framework, Ontology, Web Service Composition
Abstract:

ABSTRACT. The paper addresses the problem of automatic generation of natural language descriptions for ontology-described artifacts. The motivation for the work is the challenge of providing textual descriptions of automatically generated scientific workflows (e.g., paragraphs that scientists can include in their publications). The extended abstract presents a system which generates descriptions of sets of atoms derived from a collection of ontologies. The system, called \nlgP, demonstrates the feasibility of the task in the \emph{Phylotastic} project, that aims at providing evolutionary biologists with a platform for automatic generation of phylogenetic trees given some suitable inputs. \nlgP\ utilizes the fact that the Grammatical Framework (GF) is suitable for the natural language generation (NLG) task; the abstract shows how elements of the ontologies in Phylotastic, such as web services, inputs and outputs of web services, can be encoded in GF for the NLG task.

Pages:7
Talk:Jul 18 11:30 (Session 126D)
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