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The present paper describes a case-based reasoning solution for solving the task of selecting adequate templates for realizing messages describing actions in a given domain. This solution involves the construction of a case base from a corpus of example texts, using information from WordNet to group related verbs together. A case retrieval net is used as a memory model. A taxonomy of the concepts involved in the texts is used to compute similarity between concepts. The set of data to be converted into text acts as a query to the system. The process of solving a given query may involve several retrieval processes – to obtain a set of cases that together constitute a good solution for transcribing the data in the query as text messages – and a process of knowledge-intensive adaptation which resorts to a knowledge base to identify appropriate substitutions and completions for the concepts that appear in the cases, using the query as a source. We describe this case-based solution, and we present examples of how it solves the task of selecting an appropriate set of templates to render a given set of data as text.
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Hervás, R., Gervás, P. (2006). Case-Based Reasoning for Knowledge-Intensive Template Selection During Text Generation. In: Roth-Berghofer, T.R., Göker, M.H., Güvenir, H.A. (eds) Advances in Case-Based Reasoning. ECCBR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4106. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11805816_13
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