CogentHelp: NLG meets SE in a tool for authoring dynamically generated on-line help

CogentHelp is a prototype tool for authoring dynamically generated on-line help for applications with graphical user interfaces, embodying the "evolution-friendly" properties of tools in the literate programming tradition. In this paper, we describe Cogen Help, highlighting the usefulness of certain natural language generation techniques in supporting software-engineering goals for help authoring tools --- principally, quality and evolvability of help texts.

• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Applied Natural Language Processing Conference

• Publication date

  1997-03-31

• Fields of study

  Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3115/974557.974595
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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