A Policy-Based Approach to Context Dependent Natural Language Generation

This paper presents a method for tailoring Natural Language Generation according to context in a web-based Virtual Research Environment. We discuss a policy-driven framework for capturing user, project and organisation preferences and describe how it can be used to control the generation of textual descriptions of RDF resources.

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