GENERATING WARNING INSTRUCTIONS BY PLANNING ACCIDENTS AND INJURIES
Daniel Ansari, Graeme Hirst · 1998
We present a system for the generation of natural language instructions, as are found in instruction manuals for household appliances, that is able to automatically generate safety warnings to the user at appropriate points. Situations in which accidents and injuries to the user can occur are considered at every step in the planning of the normal operation of the device, and these "injury sub-plans" are then used to instruct the user to avoid these situations. 1 Introduction We present a system for the generation of natural language instructions, as are found in instruction manuals for household appliances, that is able to automatically generate safety warnings to the user at appropriate points. Situations in which accidents and injuries to the user can occur are considered at every step in the planning of the normal operation of the device, and these "injury sub-plans" are then used to instruct the user to avoid these situations. Thus, unlike other instruction generation systems, our...