Sentence ordering in electronic navigational chart companion text generation

Abstract

We present the sentence ordering part of a natural language generation module, used in the framework of a knowledge base of electronic navigation charts and sailing directions. The particularity of the knowledge base is that it is based on a controlled hybrid language, that is the combination of a controlled natural language and a controlled visual language. The sentence ordering process is able to take into account hybrid (textual and visual) information, involving cartographic data, as well as landscape “read” by the navigator.