PILLS: Multilingual generation of medical information documents with overlapping content
Nadjet Bouayad‐Agha, Richard Power, Donia Scott, Anja Belz · 2002
In the pharmaceutical industry, products have to be described by a range of document types with overlapping content.Moreover, much of this documentation has to be produced in many languages.This situation is commonplace in many commercial domains, and leads to well-known problems in maintaining a set of related documents and their translations.We describe a potential solution explored in the PILLS project.All relevant knowledge about a product is entered only once, through a natural-language interface to a knowledge base.From this 'master model', specialised models for a range of document types are derived automatically; from each specialised model, documents are generated automatically in all supported languages.As an illustration of this approach, the PILLS demonstrator generates three medical document types in English, German and French.