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TEMPLATE GENERATION

This module takes the semantic structures generated by the natural language processing modules and produces the templates in the official form required by the rules of the evalution. Events that do not pass the threshhold of interest defined in the rules are tossed out. Labels are printed, commas are removed from company names, percentages are rounded off, product-service codes are pulled out of a hat, and so on. And on and on.

There are no automatic methods for developing the rules in this module. The only method available is long, hard work.



Jerry Hobbs 2004-02-24