Generating Summaries of Work Flow Diagrams
Rebecca J. Passonneau, Karen Kukich, Jacques Robinz, Vasileios Hatzivassiloglouy, Larry Lefkowitz, Hongyan Jingy · 2007
FLOWDOC is a prototype text generator that summarizes information from work flow graphs in a business re-engineering context. A richer ontology than is typically used allows generalization of input data during content selection, and combination of data during sentence planning. Keywords: Summarization; Data combining; Content planning; Text generation; Industrial applications. 1 Introduction FLOWDOC is a prototype application of natural language generation technology to business reengineering (Rummler & Brache 90) . It provides automatic documentation within a software-aided business re-engineering environment under construction at Bellcore. Its input comes from SHOWBIZ (Wittenburg 96) , a GUI used in this environment to represent as work flow diagrams both the Present Mode of Operation (PMO) of a working group and the Future Modes of Operation (FMOs) suggested by re-engineering consultants. FLOWDOC summarizes the key properties of a SHOWBIZ work flow in a few natural language sent...