Sanby, Lauren and Todd, Ion and Keet, C. Maria (2016) Comparing the template-based approach to GF: the case of Afrikaans, Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Generation and the Semantic Web (WebNLG'16), September 6, 2016, Edinburgh, Scotland, 50-53, Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Abstract
Ontologies are usually represented in OWL that is not easy to grasp by domain experts. A solution to bridge this gap is to use a controlled natural language or natural language generation (NLG), which allows the knowledge in the ontology to be rendered automatically into a natural language. Several approaches exist to realise this. We used both templates and the Grammatical Framework (GF) and examined the feasibility of each by developing NLG modules for a language that had none: Afrikaans. The template system requires manual translation of the ontology's vocabulary into Afrikaans, if not already done so, while the GF system can translate the terms automatically. Yet, the template system is found to produce more grammatically correct sentences and verbalises the ontology slightly faster than the GF system. The template-based approach seems easier to extend for future development.
| Item Type: | Conference paper |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | natural language generation, OWL, grammatical framework, Afrikaans |
| Subjects: | Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence |
| Alternate Locations: | https://webnlg2016.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/book.pdf, http://www.meteck.org/files/AfrikaansWebNLG16.pdf |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Nov 2016 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2019 15:32 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1104 |
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