Parrot: The Janus Paraphraser.

摘要

This report describes Parrot, a system that generates English text from a WML (World Model Language) expression produced by BBN's Irus-II natural language understanding system. The WML represents Irus-II's understanding of its input query. Parrot works with BBN's Spokesman text generation system to generate the paraphrase. Parrot and Irus-II are integrated as part of the Janus seamless interface system, which allows a user to query the underlying expert and database systems in English, as well as use menus, graphics, maps etc. to access information. This report provides both a general description of Parrot (sections 1 through 6) and implementation details for the person who may want to maintain or extend it (the remaining sections). Keywords: Natural Language; Text generation; Paraphrase. (JHD)