NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION AND HYPERTEXT ACCESS

Abstract

An innovative framework is presented that responds to the needs of a user that may want to have punctual personalized information integrated with the possibility of accessing standard browsable information through the same generated text. An implemented system is illustrated for generating natural language texts immersed in a hypermedia network. The architecture of the system and the specific solution given to the various components and their integration are described: the strategic component and its relation to the knowledge representation and to the user model, the tactical component and its connection to the strategic one, and the hypertext manager that accomodates the new linked text. Throughout the article explicit reference is made to the implementation solutions adopted and to examples relative to the experimentation of the work as part of the ALFRESCO interactive system.