From RAGS to RICHES: exploiting the potential of a flexible generation architecture

Cahill, Lynne; Carroll, John; Evans, Roger; Paiva, Daniel; Power, Richard; Scott, Donia and van Deemter, Kees (2001). From RAGS to RICHES: exploiting the potential of a flexible generation architecture. In: Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'01), 9-11 Jul 2001, Toulouse, France.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3115/1073012.1073027

Abstract

The RAGS proposals for generic specification of NLG systems includes a detailed account of data representation, but only an outline view of processing aspects. In this paper we introduce a modular processing architecture with a concrete implementation which aims to meet the RAGS goals of transparency and reusability. We illustrate the model with the RICHES system -- a generation system built from simple linguistically-motivated modules.