Multilingual Text Generation for Abstract Wikipedia in Grammatical Framework: Prospects and Challenges

Paper i proceeding, 2023

Abstract Wikipedia is an initiative to produce Wikipedia articles from abstract knowledge representations with multilingual natural language generation (NLG) algorithms. Its goal is to make encyclopaedic content available with equal coverage in the languages of the world. This paper discusses the issues related to the project in terms of an experimental implementation in Grammatical Framework (GF). It shows how multilingual NLG can be organized into different abstraction levels that enable the sharing of code across languages and the division of labour between programmers and authors with different skill requirements. The plan is to start with a simple but functional multilingual NLG system and to proceed towards more and more sophisticated language and wider coverage of topics, also allowing a human in the loop to create content via a Controlled Natural Language (CNL).