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The purpose of this paper is to give a brief overview of TabVer, a front-end component that verbalizes large tables generated by a commercial expert system.
TabVer's aim is to highlight the essential information that is contained in possibly very large tables by generating a small text. This text gives a short summary of appropriate communicative and pragmatic acceptability, supresses all unneccessary information and also provides some additional information, which is not directly expressed in the table. The output text is generated from basic templates by a ‘planner” which operates on a special plan language according to the A*-algorithm. All basic and higher order templates are encoded in this language, which is a cost-based version of Prolog. Using all these plans (including control plans), the planner searches for the best way to verbalize the input table and (via A*) finds the optimal method first.
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Glöckner, I., Grieszl, A., Müller, M., Ronthaler, M. (1994). TabVer a case study in table verbalization. In: Nebel, B., Dreschler-Fischer, L. (eds) KI-94: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 861. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58467-6_9
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