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Knowledge-Based Report Generation: a technique for automatically generating natural language reports from databases

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SIGIR '83: Proceedings of the 6th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

Pages 246 - 250

https://doi.org/10.1145/511793.511828

Published: 01 June 1983 Publication History

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Knowledge-Based Report Generation is a technique for automatically generating natural language summaries from databases. It is so named because it applies the tools of knowledge-based expert systems design to the problem of text generation. The technique is currently being applied to the design of an automatic natural language stock report generator. Examples drawn from the implementation of the stock report generator are used to describe the components of a knowledge-based report generator.

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SIGIR '83: Proceedings of the 6th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

June 1983

255 pages

ISBN:0897911075

DOI:10.1145/511793

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National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.
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ACM SIGIR Forum Volume 17, Issue 4
Summer 1983
255 pages
ISSN:0163-5840
DOI:10.1145/1013230
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