TEXT GENERATION TECHNOLOGY FOR ADVANCED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTS

ADVANCED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTS (SEES) REQUIRE POWERFUL INTERFACES WHICH CAN REPORT ON THE STATUS OF SOFTWARE PROJECTS, AND HELP DOCUMENT THE SOFTWARE ITSELF THROUGHOUT ITS LIFE CYCLE. THIS PROJECT AIMS TO CAPITALIZE ON RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION TO BENEFIT SUCH INTERFACES, ALLOWING PROGRESS TEXTUAL REPORTS TO BE PREPARED AUTOMATICALLY IN ENGLISH FROM SEE DATABASES. IN PARTICULAR, PHASE IIS ORIENTED TOWARD INTRODUCING AUTOMATIC PRODUCTION OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT REPORTS INTO THE SOFTWARE LIFE CYCLE SUPPORT ENVIRONMENT (SLCSE). AFTER ANALYSIS OFPROJECT MANAGEMENT SUPPORT IN SLCSE, A CONCEPT DEMO PROTOTYPE WILL BE DEFINED AND IMPLEMENTED. THIS WILL SHOW THE FEASIBILITY OF PLANNING AND PRODUCING TEXTUAL PROGRESS REPORTS, WITH OR WITHOUT ACCOMPANYING TABLES AND GRAPHS, FOR VARIOUS TYPES OF SEE USERS. EXPERIMENTS WITH THE DEMO PROTOTYPE WILL HELP DETERMINE OPTIMAL IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR BUILDING A LANGUAGE GENERATION FACILITY INTO SLCSE DURING PHASE II. THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE WORK, EXTENSIONS AND ADAPTATIONS OF THE APPROACH WILL BE CONSIDERED TO OTHER POSSIBLE REPORTING FUNCTIONS WITHIN SLCSE, INCLUDING THE PLANNED GENERATION OF PARTS OF SOFTWARE DOCUMENTATION.