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Automatic generation of on-line documentation in the IDAS project

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ANLC '92: Proceedings of the third conference on Applied natural language processing

Pages 64 - 71

https://doi.org/10.3115/974499.974511

Published: 31 March 1992 Publication History

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The Intelligent Documentation Advisory System generates on-line documentation and help messages from a domain knowledge base, using natural-language (NL) generation techniques. This paper gives an overview of IDAS, with particular emphasis on: (1) its architecture and the types of questions it is capable of answering; (2) its KR and NL generation systems, and lessons we have learned in designing them; and (3) its hypertext-like user interface, and the benefits such an interface brings.

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ANLC '92: Proceedings of the third conference on Applied natural language processing

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