Knowledgeediting using WYSIWYM

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Knowledge-editing using WYSIWYM
Richard Power Donia Scott ITRI University of
Brighton
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Machine Translation
Text in Language 1
Text in Language 2
Text in Language 3
Author
Translation systems
source text
target text
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A new alternative Symbolic Authoring

• What it is and how it works
• Example of a special type of SA system
• WYSIWYM editing

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Symbolic Authoring

• A method of producing multilingual documents
  without translation

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Symbolic Authoring ...

• Allows an author to create and edit the
  knowledge source of a document
• The author builds the underlying meaning of the
  document by interacting with the
  (language-independent) domain model
• The author is a domain specialist
• The result is high-quality drafts
• A single information update will suffice to make
  the necessary changes in all output documents

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Symbolic Authoring
Text
Natural Language Generation System
Author
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Symbolic Authoring
Symbolic Source
Text
Natural Language Generation System
Author
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Multilingual Symbolic Authoring
Author
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Knowledge Editing with SA

• The author builds a knowledge base by
  manipulating graphs, trees, diagrams, menus, etc.

KB
update
generate
Feedback from interface
select, copy, paste, etc.
view
User
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Interface to SA systems

• Graphical editors
• require specialist training
• visualisation problem can quickly get out of hand
• Ideally, one would want interaction to be in
  natural language
• but without the parsing problem
• and with authors able to write in their preferred
  language

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A new approach to SAWYSIWYM Editing

• A text-based interface to Symbolic Authoring
• while still avoiding text interpretation

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WYSIWYM Editing
Text
Symbolic Source
Text
Natural Language Generation System
Author
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Multilingual WYSIWYM Editing
I n t e r f a c e
Symbolic Source
Author
Natural Language Generation Systems
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To save a file

• First open the Save dialogue box by choosing the
  Save option from the File menu.
• Then proceed as follows
• Enter the name of the file.
• Click on the Save button

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PILLS system
Empty Master Document
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PILLS system
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Conclusions

• WYSIWYM editing allows a domain expert to
  construct a KB using very simple and intuitive
  methods
• anyone can use it
• doesnt require training in KR
• doesnt require linguistic expertise
• models can be built/edited by several people, not
  necessarily in the same language or at the same
  time

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When used for document generation

• Multilingual documentation can be produced
  without many of the problems associated with
  translation, e.g.
• no problems associated with language
  interpretation
• no source-language bias
• Document management should be much easier
• updates made to knowledge not text
• different language versions will all say the same
  thing

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For more information, see
http//www.itri.brighton.ac.uk/projects/PILLS