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In the paper we discuss the NL generation module of InBASE system - the system for understanding of NL queries to data bases. This module generates a new NL-query from the internal InBASE representation of user query. During the planning phase a linearly positioned query representation is constructed. The positions first bear conceptual information, to be followed by syntactic information. The realization phase deals with NL means to express the concepts (objects, attributes, values, relations between objects and attributes). The NL generation module is conceived as the first step from a one way question - answering system which is the present state of InBASE, to a larger-scale information system capable of communicating with the user in various areas.
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Boldasov, M.V., Sokolova, E.G., Malkovsky, M.G. (2002). User Query Understanding by the InBASE System as a Source for a Multilingual NL Generation Module. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2448. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46154-X_5
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