Section 0 – SimpleNLG Tutorial

This page is based on a page of the wiki for the original SimpleNLG.

Introduction

The tutorial provides information about the SimpleNLG-NL library, how to set it up and how to use it. The following pages assume that you have a basic knowledge of Java and Object Oriented Programming. For example, you will need to understand what a class and an instance of a class are.

The wiki is written in English to accommodate users across the world.

Details

Table of contents

• 1 – What is SimpleNLG?
• 2 – Who uses SimpleNLG?
• 3 – Getting started
• 4 – Lexicon
• 5 – Generating a simple sentence
• 6 – Verbs
• 7 – What are complements?
• 8 – Adding adjectives via modifier
• 9 – Modifiers vs. complements
• 10 – Adding multiple subjects, objects and complements
• 11 – Prepositional phrases
• 12 – Different ways of specifying a phrase
• 13 – Generating a sentence with multiple clauses
• 14 – Beyond sentences: Generating paragraphs, sections, lists, documents, oh my!
• Appendix A – NLG and SimpleNLG

Contributors:

• James Christie
• Albert Gatt
• Roman Kutlak
• Donald Matheson
• Margaret Mitchell
• Ehud Reiter
• Chris Venour
• Saad
• Ruud de Jong