Human-Centric Interfaces for Ambient Intelligence

CHAPTER 4 Exploiting Natural Language Generation in Scene Interpretation

Carles Fernández, Pau Baiget,Xavier Roca,Jordi Gonzàlez

Computer Vision Centre, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

• 4.1 Introduction 72
• 4.2 Related Work 72
• 4.3 Ontology-Based User Interfaces 74
• 4.4 Vision and Conceptual Levels 75
• 4.5 The NLG Module 78
  • 4.5.1 Representation of the Discourse 80
  • 4.5.2 Lexicalization 82
  • 4.5.3 Surface Realization 82
• 4.6 Experimental Results 83
• 4.7 Evaluation 85
  • 4.7.1 Qualitative Results 87
  • 4.7.2 Quantitative Results 87
• 4.8 Conclusions 89
• Acknowledgments90
• Appendix Listing of Detected Facts Sorted by Frequency of Use 90
• References 92

Key words

natural language generation

computational linguistics

cognitive vision system ...