Sandra Williams|Ehud Reiter
Generating basic skills reports for low-skilled readers
The Open University|University of Aberdeen
abstract describe skillsum natural language generation nlg system generates personalised feedback report someone completed screening assessment basic literacy numeracy skills many skillsum users limited literacy generated reports must easily comprehended people limited reading skills novel aspect skillsum focus paper used two approaches maximise readability first determining content structure document planning explicitly model readability rather followed pragmatic approach repeatedly revising content structure following pilot experiments interviews domain experts second choosing linguistic expressions microplanning attempted formulate explicitly choices enhanced readability using constraints approach preference rules constraints based corpus analysis preference rules based psycholinguistic findings evaluation skillsum system twofold compared usefulness nlg technology canned text output assessed effectiveness readability model results showed nlg effective canned text enhancing users knowledge skills also suggested empirical revise based experiments interviews approach made substantial contribution readability well explicit psycholinguistically inspired models readability choices