Abstract
This paper presented an approach for automatic generation of reports from domain ontologies encoded in Semantic Web standards like OWL. The paper identifies the challenges that need to be addressed when generating text from RDF and OWL and demonstrates how the ontology is used during the different stages of the generation process. The main contribution is in showing how NLG tools that take Semantic Web ontologies as their input can be designed to minimises the portability effort, while offering better output than template-based ontology verbalisers.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Reiter, E., Dale, R.: Building Natural Language Generation Systems. Journal of Natural Language Engineering 3, Part 1 (1999)
Aguado, G., Bañón, A., Bateman, J.A., Bernardos, S., Fernández, M., Gómez- Pérez, A., Nieto, E., Olalla, A., Plaza, R., Sánchez, A.: ONTOGENERATION: Reusing domain and linguistic ontologies for Spanish text generation. In: Workshop on Applications of Ontologies and Problem Solving Methods, ECAI 1998 (1998)
Hu, B., Dasmahapatra, S., Shadbolt, N.: From Lexicon To Mammographic Ontology: Experiences and Lessons. In: Calvanese, D., De Giacomo, G., Franconi, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the International Workshop on Description Logics (DL 2003), pp. 229–233 (2003)
Horrocks, I., van Harmelen, F.: Reference Description of the DAML+OIL (March 2001) Ontology Markup Language. Technical report (2001), http://www.daml.org/2001/03/reference.html
Lassila, O., Swick, R.: Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification. Technical Report 19990222, W3C Consortium (1999), http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/
NLM: Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). Technical report, National Library of Medicine, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/umlsmain.html
Bontcheva, K., Kiryakov, A., Cunningham, H., Popov, B., Dimitrov, M.: Semantic web enabled, open source language technology. In: EACL workshop on Language Technology and the Semantic Web: NLP and XML, Budapest, Hungary (2003)
Bontcheva, K.: Open-source Tools for Creation, Maintenance, and Storage of Lexical Resources for Language Generation from Ontologies. In: Proceedings of 4th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2004 (2004)
Bontcheva, K.: Generation of multilingual explanations from conceptual graphs. In: Mitkov, R., Nicolov, N. (eds.) Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Selected Papers from RANLP 1995. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (CILT), vol. 136, pp. 365–376. John Benjamins, Amsterdam (1997)
Wilcock, G., Jokinen, K.: Generating Responses and Explanations from RDF/XML and DAML+OIL. In: Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems, IJCAI 2003, Acapulco, pp. 58–63 (2003)
Bateman, J.A., Magnini, B., Fabris, G.: The Generalized Upper Model Knowledge Base: Organization and Use. In: Towards Very Large Knowledge Bases, pp. 60–72 (1995)
Reape, M., Mellish, C.: Just what is aggregation anyway? In: Proceedings of the European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (EWNLG 1999), Toulouse, France, pp. 20–29 (1999)
Bontcheva, K., Dimitrova, V.: Examining the Use of Conceptual Graphs in Adaptive Web-Based Systems that Aid Terminology Learning. In: International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools – Special issue on AI Techniques in Web-Based Educational Systems (2004) (forthcoming)
Duboue, P.A., McKeown, K.R.: Empirically estimanting order constraints for content planning in generation. In: Proceedings of ACL-EACL, Toulouse (2001)
Wilcock, G.: Talking OWLs: Towards an Ontology Verbalizer. In: Human Language Technology for the Semantic Web and Web Services, ISWC 2003, Sanibel Island, Florida, pp. 109–112 (2003)
Paris, C.L.: Tailoring object descriptions to the user’s level of expertise. Computational Linguistics 14 (3), 64–78 (1988); Special Issue on User Modelling
Mittal, V.O., Carenini, G., Moore, J.D.: Generating Patient Specic Explanations in Migraine. In: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Symposium on Computer Applications in Medical Care, McGraw-Hill Inc., New York (1994)
Reiter, E., Robertson, R., Osman, L.: Lessons from a Failure: Generating Tailored Smoking Cessation Letters. Artificial Intelligence 144, 41–58 (2003)
Bateman, J.A.: Enabling technology for multilingual natural language generation: the kpml development environment. Journal of Natural Language Engineering 3, 15–55 (1997)
O’Donnell, M., Knott, A., Oberlander, J., Mellish, C.: Optimising text quality in generation from relational databases. In: Proceedings of the International Natural Language Generation Conference (INLG 2000), pp. 133–140 (2000)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2004 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Bontcheva, K., Wilks, Y. (2004). Automatic Report Generation from Ontologies: The MIAKT Approach. In: Meziane, F., Métais, E. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3136. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27779-8_28
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27779-8_28
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-22564-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-27779-8
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive