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Inclusion of Picture Sequences in Generated Documents

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Progress in Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 1999)

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This paper explains how a form of picture retrieval can be used to allow a document generation system to include pictures in generated documents. The exposition is based on the What You See Is What You Meant (WYSIWYM) approach to document generation [15], [16]. The approach outlined in the paper makes use of a library of pictures, each of which is associated with a WYSIWYM-generated set of logical representations that formalize the intended meaning of the picture. The paper focuses on the inclusion of picture sequences into generated documents, and on coreference relations between different pictures in a sequence.

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  1. Information Technology Research Institute (ITRI), University of Brighton, Lewes Road, Watts Bldng., Brighton, BN2 4GJ, UK

    Kees van Deemter & Richard Power

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  1. Departamento de Informática, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre, P-2825-114, Caparica, Portugal

    Pedro Barahona

  2. Departamento de Matemática, Universidade de Évora, R. Romão Ramalho 59, P-7000, Évora, Portugal

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van Deemter, K., Power, R. (1999). Inclusion of Picture Sequences in Generated Documents. In: Barahona, P., Alferes, J.J. (eds) Progress in Artificial Intelligence. EPIA 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1695. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48159-1_8

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