Generate Readable Textual Report from Numeric Variables' Values

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Dima
Dima 2011-9-20
Hello! I am not sure if this can be done and if there is a script to do this.. I have seen some weather report generators online which generate human readable weather reports from raw weather data...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_generation
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ncs/computing/research/nlg/demonstrations/pollen/
I wonder if this can be done in Matlab? I am sure a toolbox that would do that would earn a LOT OF MONEY for the Matlab....still I wonder if anyone has seen a similar functionality implemented in Matlab or tried it themselves? I will be happy to hear any comments!) Have a nice day!) D
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Jan
Jan 2011-9-20
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Jan
Jan 2011-9-20
I do not see a market for such a toolbox. The best implementation to create a human readable report are humen. Why should this be done by a computer as long as there are enough people around here? Creating such a report is neither dangerous, nor must it be done millions of times per second.
I've talked to an computerized telephone support machine and it was simply annoying and ridiculous. However, I'm convinced that the progress in computer linguistics cannot be stopped. And someday there will be a really intelligent speaking computer, which will attract the attention by acting like a human:
Person: "Please open the door"
Computer: "No"
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Dima
Dima 2011-9-20
Thank you for your reply. as for your question to WHY NLG is necessary I am quoting a Author of "Building Natural Language Generation Systems":
Of course, cost is not the only factor in deciding whether to automate a document
production task, and indeed in many cases it is not even the dominant factor. Other
reasons for using NLG technology include:
• Consistency. Consistency may be required between texts and the input
data. Because NLG systems generate text directly from the input data,
they will always (provided the software works correctly) accurately communicate
that data. Human authors, in contrast, may make mistakes as a
result of carelessness, boredom, or fatigue. Such mistakes can be caught
by a quality-assurance check, but this is expensive and may not detect all
mistakes.
• Conformance to standards. In many cases, documents are required to
conform to strict writing and content standards. For example, AECMA
Simplified English (AECMA, 1986), from the European Association of
Aerospace Industries, is used in the airline industry to ensure that maintenance
manuals meet these kinds of requirements. Human authors can
find it difficult always to write according to a prescribed standard, but an
NLG system can be programmed to obey such a standard by giving it the
necessary rules of grammar, style, and contents.
• Speed of document production. For example, Environment Canada is
investigating the use of FOG to rapidly produce updated forecasts in severe
weather conditions such as tornadoes and hurricanes. The advantage of
adopting a software solution in this case is that it can produce a forecast
in seconds, whereas a human forecaster will require several minutes to
write the same forecast. In any case, in a severe weather situation, the
human forecaster's time may be better spent on analysis than on writing
forecast texts.
• Generating documents in multiple languages. Some NLG systems,
such as FOG, can produce versions of a text in several languages. This
allows users to produce documents in a language they do not know, without
needing to involve a human translator. This is only useful, of course,
if the quality of the generated texts is predictable enough to remove any
need for expensive human checking of the results.
• Staffing issues. If a particular type of document is very boring to write,
it may be difficult to employ or retain staff who are willing to write it.
Computer systems do not get bored and indeed work best on exactly the
kinds of monotonous tasks that people dislike.
Dima
Dima 2011-9-20
and the question remains as to how this can be done in Matlab?
I have no experience using the Matlab Report Generator. I wonder if the text there can be created that is based on a tree like logical sequence?
thanks!)

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Dima
Dima 2011-9-21
You think this cannot be done in Matlab at all???? i wonder if the Report Generator can be used to create text from logical trees based on variable values?

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