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AGILE: Automatic Generation of Instructions in Languages of Eastern Europe
Results AGILE is a tool which allows a technical author to specify, in a non-linguistic representation, the 'content' of different tasks that can be performed by users of CAD-CAM software. The AGILE system can then automatically express these content specifications in styles appropriate to different sections of a CAD-CAM manual (procedures, ready reference ...) in Bulgarian, Czech and Russian. The generated texts are displayed in a browser as hyperlinked documents. No expertise in knowledge representation is required, although some training with the interface is needed. The resources produced by AGILE include:
  • Computational grammars for Bulgarian, Czech and Russian implemented in the KPML environment
  • An extension of KPML to accommodate linguistic features characteristic of these three languages
  • A text structuring module that plans instructional texts in several styles
  • Comparative analyses of the target text types in these three languages
  • An interface that enables a user to specify the content of the manual and view the generated texts
For further information, see the following:
  • (ready) The AGILE system freely available for downloading
  • (updated)The public deliverables detailing the technical activities of the project
  • A manual for downloading and installing the system
  • A non-technical overview of the project's achievements
  • The main publications arising from the project
     
Duration 1 January 1998 to 31 December 2000
Consortium
  • Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK (coordinators)
  • Institute of Information Technology, Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Institute for Applied Linguistics, University of the Saarland, Saarbrucken, Germany
  • Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Russian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Moscow, Russia
  • Datecs-CM Ltd, Bulgaria (1 January 1998 to 30 June 1999)
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    Project Coordinators
  • Prof. Tony Hartley
  • Prof. Donia R Scott
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    Financial Support This project was funded by the European Commission as part of the INCO-Copernicus programme under project grant PL961004.
    Contact agile@coord.itri.brighton.ac.uk
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    Last updated February 2001

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