NDLI: Intentions in the Coordinated Generation of Graphics and Text from Tabular Data

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Fascia, Massimo Lapalme, Guy
Copyright Year	2000
Abstract	To use graphics efficiently in an automatic report generation system, one has to model messages and how they go from the writer (intention) to the reader (interpretation). This paper describes PostGraphe, a system which generates a report integrating graphics and text from a set of writer's intentions. The system is given the data in tabular form as might be found in a spreadsheet; also input is a declaration of the types of values in the columns of the table. The user then indicates the intentions to be conveyed in the graphics (e.g., compare two variables or show the evolution of a set of variables) and the system generates a report in LATEX with the appropriate PostScript graphic files. PostGraphe uses the same information to generate the accompanying text that helps the reader to focus on the important points of the graphics. We also describe how these ideas have been embedded to create a new Chart Wizard for Microsoft Excel.
Starting Page	310
Ending Page	339
Page Count	30
File Format	PDF
ISSN	02191377
Journal	Knowledge and Information Systems
Volume Number	2
Issue Number	3
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag London Limited
Publisher Date	2000-08-30
Publisher Place	London
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Artificial Intelligence Information Systems Human-Computer Interaction Hardware and Architecture Software

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
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Intentions in the Coordinated Generation of Graphics and Text from Tabular Data