Generating warning instructions by planning accidents and injuries. Ansari, D. & Hirst, G. In Proceedings, 9th International Workshop on Natural Language Generation, pages 118–127, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, August, 1998.
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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.
@InProceedings{	  ansari1,
  author	= {Daniel Ansari and Graeme Hirst},
  title		= {Generating warning instructions by planning accidents and
		  injuries},
  booktitle	= {Proceedings, 9th International Workshop on Natural
		  Language Generation},
  address	= {Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario},
  month		= {August},
  year		= {1998},
  pages		= {118--127},
  abstract	= {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
		  <I>normal</I> operation of the device, and these ``injury
		  sub-plans'' are then used to instruct the user to
		  <I>avoid</I> these situations.},
  download	= {http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/Ansari+Hirst-Warnings-98.pdf}
		  
}

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