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--Abstract Wikipedia and Grammatical Framework
Aarne Ranta <https://www.cse.chalmers.se/~aarne/>, a member of the Abstract
Wikipedia NLG Special Interest Group, and professor at the University of
Gothenburg, Sweden <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Gothenburg>,
has written an article titled “Multilingual Text Generation for Abstract
Wikipedia in Grammatical Framework: Prospects and Challenges”. Here is the
abstract of the article:
Abstract Wikipedia is an initiative to produce Wikipedia articles from
abstract knowledge representations with multilingual natural language
generation (NLG) algorithms. Its goal is to make encyclopaedic content
available with equal coverage in the languages of the world. This paper
discusses the issues related to the project in terms of an experimental
implementation in Grammatical Framework (GF). It shows how multilingual NLG
can be organized into different abstraction levels that enable the sharing
of code across languages and the division of labour between programmers and
authors with different skill requirements. The plan is to start with a
simple but functional multilingual NLG system and to proceed towards more
and more sophisticated language and wider coverage of topics, also allowing
a human in the loop to create content via a Controlled Natural Language
(CNL).
The paper can be read here:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-21780-7_6
It can also be accessed as a preprint free of charge from the following
link:
https://www.grammaticalframework.org/~aarne/preprint-AAM-textgen.pdf