Authors:
Nishadi De Silva
and
Peter Henderson
Affiliation:
School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
Document narratives, Technical documents for BPR, Rhetorical Structure Theory, XML
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Process Management
;
e-Business
;
Education/Learning
;
e-Learning
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Intelligent User Interfaces
;
Interactive and Multimedia Web Applications
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is an area that requires a lot of technical documents and an important feature of a well-written document is a coherent narrative. Even though computer software has helped authors in many other aspects of writing, support for document narratives is almost non-existent. Therefore, we introduce CANS (Computer-Aided Narrative Support), a tool that uses Rhetorical Structure Theory to enhance the narrative of a document. From this narrative, the tool generates questions to prompt the author for the content of the document. CANS also allows the author to explore alternative narratives for a document. A catalogue of predefined narrative structures for popular types of documents is provided too. Our tool is still in its rudimentary stages but sufficiently complete to be demonstrated.