WYSIWYM (Meant)

What You See Is What You Meant allows users to create abstract knowledge representations such as those required by the Semantic Web using a natural language interface. Interestingly, no attempt at natural language understanding (NLU) is made. Instead, natural language generation (NLG) technology is used in a highly interactive manner:

This editor lets a user repeatedly select and refine spans of an initially more or less vacuous text, such as the sentence "An event occurs." Using a mouse, place-holders in the initial text can be further refined by choosing options that are generated by natural language generation technology based on an ontology. During this process and invisible to the user, an underlying knowledge representation is created which can be used for multilingual document generation, formal knowledge formation, or any other task that requires formally specified information.

ee also

*Semantic markup

References

* [http://mcs.open.ac.uk/nlg/research/Conceptual_Authoring.html Open University Conceptual Authoring]
* [http://www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/newindex.html ITRI at Brighton University]
* [http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/nltg/ Natural Language Technology Group University of Brighton]
* [http://www.mcs.open.ac.uk/ Open University Mathematic and Computer]