Ehud Reiter, Albert Gatt, François Portet, M. Meulen
{"title":"The Importance of Narrative and Other Lessons from an Evaluation of an NLG System that Summarises Clinical Data","authors":"Ehud Reiter, Albert Gatt, François Portet, M. Meulen","doi":"10.3115/1708322.1708349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1708322.1708349","url":null,"abstract":"The BABYTALK BT-45 system generates textual summaries of clinical data about babies in a neonatal intensive care unit. A recent task-based evaluation of the system suggested that these summaries are useful, but not as effective as they could be. In this paper we present a qualitative analysis of problems that the evaluation highlighted in BT-45 texts. Many of these problems are due to the fact that BT-45 does not generate good narrative texts; this is a topic which has not previously received much attention from the NLG research community, but seems to be quite important for creating good data-to-text systems.","PeriodicalId":439915,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Fifth International Natural Language Generation Conference on - INLG '08","volume":"219 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133935083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}